Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will deal more thoroughly than these lectures with one phase of the subject. Professor Poulton is one of the best known of living zoologists and his lecture this afternoon is sure to be most interesting and most valuable. The topic of the lecture will probably suggest an entirely new idea to men who have never taken zoology or botany courses. To the ordinary observer the colors of animals and of plants and flowers are mere accidents. Yet this matter of color plays a most important part in animal and plant life and it is directly concerned in the great plan...
Although the idea of relay races is probably a very old one, it is only within the past few years that the event has attained any prominence in our athletics. Exeter students claim to have been the first to have revived the custom. The popular features of the sport soon attracted the attention of athletic organizations,- notably the B. A. A.,- and the result was an immediate interest in it among the schools and clubs about Boston...
...Monthly for January, is a short account of the life of Henry Warren Torry '33, who was McLean professor of history at Harvard from 1857 until his death on December 14 last. The author, Professor MacVane, also writes interestingly of Professor Torrey's work at Harvard and gives an idea of his delightful personality...
...fund furnishes annually two prizes at Vassar College, one of $30 and one of $20, which are granted to the writer of the two best essays upon some Shakespearean or Elizabethan subject, competition open to all members of the senior class. The subject assigned this year is "Shakespeare's Idea of Providence and Fate...
...phases of college life, will soon be appointed and then the details of the scheme can be thoroughly attended to. Certainly such a plan as this will be a high tribute to Mr. Irving and his art and the students will doubtless be very glad to support the idea. When any definite action has been taken, due notice will be given in the CRIMSON...