Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...long since passed. Especially is this true in view of recent articles in the CRIMSON where approval of such a challenge, if not definitely expressed, was at least pretty clearly implied. So far as I have been able to find out, it was in those very articles that the idea of an intercollegiate freshman debate originated, and it now seems rather severe on the Debating Club to arraign them for an action for which the CRIMSON, by its influence, is itself partially, if not wholly responsible...
...have been in large part, if not wholly, responsible for the encouragement which the debate has received, is an unexpected proposition, and one which is in no way justified by the facts. In one point, however, our correspondent is right. We might very properly have condemned the entire idea of a freshman debate as soon as it was suggested. We did not do this, and a challenge was sent to the Yale Freshman Union. It was a few days ago that we had news of the way this challenge was received at Yale. The Freshman Union there postponed final decision...
...feel any benefit from the service himself he was aiding others who needed the services by his presence, for it is a trait of human nature that a crowd always draws more to itself. He said the services should not be viewed with any sectarian idea. They were the family prayers of the college and sectarianism had not yet made its way into them...
...keep them from it." We refer to this because it is expressive of a very erroneous, yet very common, conception of the Harvard system. This system we do not believe to be a "cheat-if-you-can" system. Any such understanding of it must arise from a wholly mistaken idea of the relations now existing at Harvard between student and professor...
...proposes that the referee be given power to have the half-mile run in heats when the number of entries requires it. Harvard's half-milers suffered last year by being placed in the third row of starters, which proved equal to a handicap of many yards. Pennsylvania's idea of cutting down the time of the meeting is to have the trials of the quarter-mile and bicycle race in the morning, while Yale favors the same scheme with the addition of having the trials in the 100 yards run in the morning. Practically all the colleges favor...