Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...varsity baseball candidates began work in the cage at the Carey Building yesterday afternoon. Each man received practice in picking up grounders, and this was followed by practice in starting, the idea being to teach the men how to get a quick start in running to bases. Next came a short, hard run up North avenue which ended at the gymnasium. The dumb-bells and chest-weights were omitted as Captain Whittemore evidently considered the candidates had enough exercise for the first...
...might seem to be here some ground of complaint against the college for neglect of an important branch of the student's education. A glance at the records of this year's freshman class in the admission examination in English will at once put an end to any such idea. In 1894, out of five hundred and five candidates who presented English for the entrance examination, only four received "credits," and the average standard was by no means high. It is doubtless true that the conditions under which the candidates write their papers are not favorable to the production...
...preparations necessary for successful research are, a reasonable amount of money, good manners, a knowledge of modern Greek and an idea of the Eastern countries. In these countries the monks of the Greek Church are, contrary to common report, bright and intelligent, and know much about the manuscripts in their charge...
...Watson is not here to pick a crew from fellows of his immediate acquaintance or to be partial in the slightest degree; the idea is simply absurd. He is here to teach us to row, a position for which his thorough knowledge of the science adapts him; he is here to pull us out of the hole into which we have fallen and to establish a system which shall win, as it must, a full share of victories in the future...
...denominations in Dublin University, formed themselves into the "Contemporary Club" which used to meet every Saturday night to discuss the leading political events of the week. The meetings of this club were always perfectly harmonious and from it two or three of its members, including the speaker, conceived the idea of an international congress of clergymen of all denominations. When this proposal was made public it received the support both of the Oxford Church influence, consisting of Cardinals Manning, Newman and others, and of the broad church, comprising men like Arnold and Dean Stanley. The very general and active desire...