Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Pierce spoke of the great advantages the Graduate School possesses in having, as its students, men who come with the predominant and absorbing idea of hard work. The varied motives which actuate men in the College are all merged into one serious determination to obtain a thorough knowledge of a particular subject. The scope of the Graduate School is much higher than that of the College, for the standard of admission to the one is the standard of graduation from the other. In closing, Professor Pierce extended a warm welcome to all new-comers...
...more definite agreement be reached upon several important points. Last year, for example, the time of preparation for debate was extended from six to eight weeks. In addition to deciding whether that change shall be permanent, the conference will probably fix the dates of the three debates, discuss the idea of limiting competition to undergraduate or certain schools, and re-consider the question of Faculty coaching. There also seems to be a general sentiment in all three universities that a different system of judging should be established to the extent that judges be given certain definite instructions, printed or oral...
...Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee recently held a meeting with the idea of clearing up several points in the code of rules drawn up last year. No radical changes have been made in the methods of play, but the rules as they now read can not be misunderstood. Rule 7 has been changed to read as follows...
...idea of holding fall practice is not to pick a nine or develop team work, but to enable the captain and coaches to decide the various positions in which men should be tried, so that the cage work of the early spring may not be blind. The playing squads which have to be handled in the cage are too large to enable such a test to be made, and furthermore, a reliable test cannot be made indoors...
...afternoon, W. H. Lewis, L. S. '93, coached the line-men in blocking off, with the especial idea of opening up holes. Meanwhile the backs and ends practiced kicking, catching, and following punts. After about fifteen minutes of this work, a first eleven with substitutes was chosen. The rest of the men about twenty-five in number, will form the second eleven. They have been put in charge of E. Gray '00, who will pick out the most promising players before the squad is reduced...