Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...furnish the necessary financial support for the club. There seems to be an impression in Cambridge that there are a few well known players who are practically sure of the team and there is consequently no need of a general competition. This is, of course, a mistaken idea: Yale, especially, is unusually strong this year and if Harvard is to win the tournament all of the golf players must co-operate in trying for the team; even if a man does not make the team he can do something to help it, merely by trying for it in competition with...
...Brunetiere,said Mr. de Sumichrast, will be the first member of the French Academy to speak at this University. He is a typical Frenchman and one of the best type; he will give us a truer idea of the French and their literature than we can ever derive from paper-covered novels and sensational plays. He is a self-made man, in the best sense of the expression-one who, starting without wealth or rank, has made himself an authority by sheer energy, patience and labor...
...value of an occasion like that of last night's class dinner can not be overestimated, provided the members of the class take its lesson to heart and try hereafter to work together. As Mr. Roosevelt said last year at the mass meeting in Sanders Theatre, the individual idea of every man for himself is now far too prevalent at Harvard. Although this is largely due to the incresed size of the University and to the consequent diversity of student interests, if undergraduates are more ready to overcome their individual likes and dislikes and could meet in the spirit...
...object of this whole system of Weld boating is to get a great many organized crews on the river, rowing, under instruction, a uniform stroke with the class and University eights. The idea is heartily advocated by Mr. Lehmann and is under the 'Varsity management...
International questions should progress by evolution, as should our interior affairs. Our colleges must educate more and more men who shall deal with political questions. Our citizens have no adequate idea of the doings of our legislatures. Newspaper reports are poor. A comparison of any report with the Congressional Record will prove the truth of this statement...