Word: idea
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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During the past week enthusiasm has risen to a pitch probably higher than would have accompanied a season in which Harvard's goal line had not been crossed. The primary object of this was to inspire the team with the idea that the whole University is behind it. But the frequency and effervescent spirit of these spontaneous outbursts prove that they are not forced, but that underlying it all there is a real confidence in the team. We know that every man on the eleven will do all that lies in his power to justify this confidence, and we wish...
...memory. There is also placed here, a collection of books duplicating, so far as possible, those which Harvard bequeathed to the infant College and which were burnt in the fire of 1764. The collection is by no means complete, but it is sufficiently extensive to give a good idea of the character of the library owned by the young Puritan clergyman. In looking at these books, which are now old and dilapidated, it must be borne in mind that the greater part of them were recently published works in Harvard's time, and that his library, while containing a good...
Owing to the small size of the Freshman football squad and the lateness of the season, the idea of organizing a tournament for scrub teams has been abandoned for this year...
...idea of having the members of the Glee Club sit together at the mass meeting Tuesday night was a good one. Unfortunately, however, the fellows near the middle of the hall could not hear them. The result was that many of us did not get the tune of the songs accurately. Why not at the next mass meeting carry the excellent idea of Tuesday night one step further, and have the Glee Club sing each song several times before the whole meeting takes it up? Then everybody will know what he is to sing, and he will be able...
...Harvard Mission course on "The Apologetics of Missions" will be held this evening at 8 o'clock in the Randall Room of Phillips Brooks House. Rev. Enech Bell Yale '98, who is to give the course, will be present and will give an introductory talk on "Criticism of the Idea of Missions." An informal discussion of interesting points in the address will follow...