Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...more than one-third of the College, are Massachusetts men. Boston boys grow up with the idea of making successful Harvard athletes as they know the social distinction at college this confers. New York men, although filling some of the clubs, furnish few athletes. Chicago has almost always representatives on some of the teams. Moreover, election to the clubs has been the reward of successful athletics. A great many of the members of 'varsity teams and crews have become club men chiefly through athletic success...
...School, to receive the signatures of members of the University who are in favor of the University Club project. Men who sign these blue-books do not pledge them selves to join the club if it should be started, but only to help the graduate committee to get an idea of the demand for the club...
...Literary Study of the Classics," by Charles P. Parker, is an exposition of the ideals of the Jowett Club, an association of students interested in classical literature, "organized on the idea that personal conference is of the essence of literary work." If we are to abide by the principle that every man should be a master of one subject and at least an appreciator of all others, then it may be said of Mr. Parker's essay that every classical student must read it with profit and others will read it with more than passive appreciation...
...Munro '96; while the finale, the ceremony of the conferring of the doctor's degree is being arranged so as to be one of the most impressive parts of the programme. The latter, unique in character, will be both imposing and ridiculous. At the end of the play the idea is suggested to Argan, the malade imaginaire, that it would be convenient and, above all, a cheap plan to be made a doctor himself. This idea strikes him as a clever one and he desires to be initiated immediately. Thereupon the ceremony takes place, which is full of mock pompousness...
Several graduates have conceived the idea that a union, founded on broad and hospitable lines, would serve to bind together the various athletic, social and intellectual interests of the students, and would do for Harvard what the unions at Cambridge and Oxford in England have done for these universities. It is also intended that the proposed club shall afford a meeting place for graduates who visit Cambridge...