Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...effort for change. The committee may claim that they did so last year with no beneficial results; but the method of their action then was so distasteful to the undergraduates that the attempt on their part at radical change was not genuine and so came to nothing. Then the idea of faculty interference in athletics was so novel and disagreeable, that the students simply bucked against it recklessly. Now the idea of interference, although no less disagreeable, perhaps, has lost all of its novelty, and we realize that, as the power to act undoubtedly lies with the faculty, we must...
...idea of holding a series of interclass games of base ball, seems to be meeting with favor at other colleges...
...slender that it is a reproach to the college. We should not consider the Union as a place of amusement, but as a source of one of the most important courses of training offered by the college curriculum. We cannot rate too high the power of properly expressing an idea in public, and a debating society is a means of education which is too often neglected...
...freshman cries for justice. The idea that the details of the torchlight rush have been presented solely from a sophomoric point of view fills his ardent soul with envy and he calls aloud that his deeds may be set forth in undying print for the benefit of posterity and humanity in general and the edification of himself in particular. How the fence went down before the mighty onslaught of the '88 warriors, how the sophomore braves Lacked sand to begin the fight after the time-honored custom, how many of the latter were bareheaded on their return to the classic...
...given time, but also where every other man in the team was and should be. And this seems to me, to be directly due to the fact that he had been told by the Captain, or whoever acted as coach, what to do in any given case. This idea was thoroughly confirmed in my mind, on the evening following, when I was told that such was truly the state of the case. To quote in the words of my informer, "Each rusher was told to back up' some other individual rusher, and if he was not there, he was 'cussed...