Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...appear at first thought that these tests have anything about them which is connected with education, physical or mental. Yet they are being made with a view to making clear the relation of physical training to the development of quick and accurate motions and of well balanced bodies. The idea is to find out by comparison what sorts of exercise demand as a pre-requisite the most accurate mental aim and the quickest motor response and also what sorts of exercise develope these to the greatest degree. If the tests made show that with tennis, fencing, boxing and football there...
...meeting of the Canadian Club on Saturday evening, Mr. B. G. Gordon, the leader of the Harvard Honduras expedition, lectured on the "Ancient Cities of Central America." Mr. Gordon described his trip to Honduras and his visit to the old cities of the interior, whose remarkable ruins give some idea of the civilization which flourished there ages before the coming of Europeans to America. These cities, once so magnificent, are now overgrown by forests, inhabited only by wild animals, and many of them seldom visited by man. Mr. Gordon also told several anecdotes illustrative of the character and customs...
...said that at Venice especially there was a great change in art during this period. This change was most noticeable in the idea of Venus. Previously Venus had been painted as unnatural and without color, while now freshness and beauty characterized pictures...
...classes and by individuals who exercise alone is very significant and very gratifying. There has been an undoubted tendency in the last few years to neglect gymnasium work for athletic games, and so far has that tendency gone that there is danger of entirely losing sight of the idea of exercise for the sake of sound bodies; the idea of athletics for the sake of beating Yale has become the all-important thing. The training for athletic teams is now carried to such a point that it becomes a long physical strain which is quite beyond the endurance...
...Boston this winter. Poor boys in large cities have almost no home life and have hardly any pleasure. In a winter as hard as this is sure to be they will be especially badly off and so this is a very good time to start a club. The idea is to have two rooms in some crowded part of Boston, probably near Florence street, and in one of these to have a gymnasium and in the other a reading room. This will be open three or possibly four nights a week, and as many boys as can be handled will...