Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale has been playing foot ball now for just a week and Capt. McClung has begun to get a good idea of what material he has from which to build up a team. McClung, Heffelfinger, Wallis, S. Morrison, Barbour, Crosby, Hartwell and L. Bliss are those of the last year eleven who are back. The men who have graduated and whose places are to be filled are Rhodes, r.t.; Holcomb and Lewis, c.; Harvey and Williams, f. b., and B. Morrison, f. b. Most of the men who have come back it will be noticed are players of long standing...
...class room. You wrote a good paper, but your daily work brought you down." The student turns from him to another instructor. This one says: "Well, I do not keep account of daily work. I take the examination mark and then strike an average between that and the general idea which I have of a man." The next professor says kindly - "The real reason I marked you down was because you were absent half the time. I count regularity in attendance at least one-third." Still another says carelessly - "Oh, no: I really don't care much whether you attend...
After some preliminary work two elevens were chosen and a short game played. The make-up of the teams changed often, as Captain Trafford tried different men in the same position in order to get a better idea of his material. The play was very fair for so early in the season; the work of the backs is better than that of the lines. Corbett scored one touch-down for the first eleven by a run around the end. With this exception the playing was very even. The practice was watched by Dean, of last year's team...
...more representative body from among the faculty could hardly have been found than those who spoke in Sanders Theatre last night to the students who are just entering the University. The idea of the meeting was an excellent one, and the results we are sure will be happy. This year the arrangements for receiving new students have been more complete and systematic than ever before. The work has been under the immediate charge of Professor Shaler, but he has had the help of able assistants from among both instructors and students. The result has been that, whereas in many former...
...looks out upon the broad expanse of life with its wonderful activity and its astonishing achievements, he cannot but remark how each man is compelled to follow one line of business or profession and so keep on in a narrow channel. Now this is the very idea that we must dismiss from our minds and it is the very principle that will mar the noblest minds. No such opinion prevails in a true university. "For if a university stands for anything it stands for the development of the full man, of large character and with sympathies bound up with...