Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...faculty are ready to receive applications for the course and it is very much desired that all men in the university who think of taking the course next year should consult within the week with either Professor Shaler or Dr. Sargent about the matter, so that some idea may be formed of the probable size of the classes, and that final arrangements may be made for them. So far, some half dozen men have signified their intention of entering the course...
...terribly uncertain. There is still a week before the intercollegiate games. If this is too short a period for the men to do very much toward improving their speed, it is not too short for them to work themselves into the best of physical condition, and to get the idea firmly fixed in their minds that only by their very hardest efforts can they hope to keep the track athletic championship where it belongs...
...Undue exaltation of physical superiority. This is shown by the cases of - (a) Kelley. - (b) J. L. Sullivan. - (c) College "grand stand" players. - (d) Bad blood between amateur athletic clubs. - (e) Change in popular idea of college man who once a "grind" is now a "slugger...
...mile walk depends so much upon the judge's idea of fairness that the best of walkers may be ruled off even after winning the event. It looks as if the first two places at least will fall to Harvard while Yale may take third...
...performance takes place at the club house of the Hasty Pudding Club on Holyoke street. The management has reason to believe that a number of men in college have a mistaken idea about going to the performance. It is by no means Hasty Pudding men alone who are expected to make up the audience. Everybody who cares to see the performance and help along the crew is very welcome, whether he be a senior or a freshman, a college man or a townsman, a member of the Hasty Pudding Club...