Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this year to change the method of distributing degrees to members of the senior class on Commencement. Owing to the large numbers in the graduating classes of recent years, the wholesale distribution in Sanders Theatre has caused a scene of confusion which it is hard to reconcile with any idea of dignity attaching to the exercises of the day. The actual process of conferring the degrees is out of harmony with the general tone of the exercises. These, to be appropriate to the occasion when seniors are finally closing their college career, should be dignified and impressive throughout; which...
...Yale News has compared the various English and American college athletic records, so as to give some idea of the probable outcome of a meeting between Oxford and Cambridge and Harvard and Yale if it should be arranged. The records were made on different grounds and under diverse conditions and therefore an allowance must be made in comparisons. Of the English records, only those of Oxford made a year ago, are considered. The Harvard and Yale records are those of the last dual games...
...undergraduates have already joined, there is at present no room for more. But the teaching force will probably be enlarged before next October, in which case more students can be admitted. The club will be named the Jowett Club, after the late Professor Jowett, from whose influence the idea of it it has in great part grown. The only executive officer at present is the organizing secretary, Mr. Charles P. Parker, 60 Shepard street, Cambridge...
...team work of Brown was miserable, not only in the field, but at the bat. With three men on bases and the strongest hitter of the team at the bat, Cook, on second, conceived the brilliant idea of stealing third, and was allowed to make the attempt by the coachers. This was simply a fair sample of Brown's acceptance of opportunities...
Students have become so accustomed to the idea of the Glee Club's singing in the Yard that the other musical clubs are almost forgotten. There is no reason why they, too, should not do their part to make the evenings in the Yard pleasant. On Class Day the playing by the Banjo Club has always been a great success, and there are few instruments heard to better advantage in the open air than the mandolin and guitar...