Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freshman teams of Yale and Columbia is to be played at New Haven this afternoon. The Yale freshmen have also issued a challenge to the Princeton freshmen, and a game will probably be arranged between the two teams. The Princeton men are very anxious to meet Yale. Yale's idea is to have the game played at New Haven on the day before Thanksgiving...
...somewhat lengthy editorial upon the advisability of discontinuing the presence of proctors in the examination room. The writer argues in the negative, principally on account of what he calls the lack of public opinion at Harvard. He wisely leaves the subject, however, to enlarge upon the growing idea of the abolition of examinations entirely. In substitution for which he says there should be theses or weekly tests. This is obviously the reform that will come in the future, and which already has been seriously discussed by those in authority...
...devoted to her although knowing her to be the wife of another, Hardress Cregan. The latter would desert her and wed Ann Chute in order to raise the mortgage on his estate. The only solution of his difficulty is to get the Colleen Bawn out of the way. The idea is repulsive to him, but Donny Mann, the devoted hireling of Cregan, expresses his readiness to act if Cregan will but send his glove as a token secretly understood between them that the Colleen is to disappear. The glove is sent by a misunderstanding and Donny Mann acts. Eily...
...devoted to her although knowing her to be the wife of another, Hardress Cregan. The latter would desert her and wed Ann Chute in order to raise the mortgage on his estate. The only solution of his difficulty is to get the Colleen Bawn out of the way. The idea is repulsive to him, but Donny Mann, the devoted hireling of Cregan, expresses his readiness to act if Cregan will but send his glove as a token secretly understood between them that the Colleen is to disappear. The glove is sent by a misunderstanding and Donny Mann acts. Eily...
...settled system of training and coaching has been adopted under which the condition and the team play of the Harvard eleven has improved rapidly from year to year. In the game today with a team so often victorious in the past, we should be able to form a good idea of the real value of the new system. A victory will prove conclusively the wisdom of its adoption, and will lend encouragement, not only to this year's team, but to future teams which will represent Harvard...