Word: idea
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...following list will give some idea of the scale on which Memorial Hall is conducted: 1000 pounds of beef is used at a breakfast, 300 pounds of fish, 1700 pounds of chops, and one-quarter of a barrel of rolled oats or one-eighth of a barrel of rolled wheat. Seven bushels of potatoes and 25 pounds of coffee are also used...
...battery candidates began their work yesterday afternoon in the Cage at Soldiers Field under the direction of Capt. Reid and Coach Lewis. The work was very light, consisting simply of easy pitching practice. The idea is merely to get the men limbered up at first, and then by degrees to increase the severity and length of the practice as the squad advances in development. Several new candidates reported yesterday...
...response to the request for opinions from the class, communications received by the Class Day Committee have been opposed to the wearing of caps and gowns before Class Day. So far as the committee can ascertain, this seems to be the feeling throughout the class. Although in theory the idea commends itself to almost everyone, in practice it has never proved a success. Therefore the committee feels justified in deciding that the class shall wear caps and gowns only on Baccalaureate Sunday, Class Day and Commencement. There is, however, a decided feeling among a majority of the class that there...
...Union discloses the significant fact that they are distinctly apologetic. The advocates of this site do not pretend that the far side of Quincy street is, in any sense, a College centre; they content themselves with asserting that it can be made a centre, or with sneering at the idea that men will not care to walk for three or four minutes out of their way to reach the club...
...Harvard Union. I would like to give some facts. Facts which are the result of actual experiment and computation. I wish to show (1) That the proposed site on the corner of Quincy and Harvard streets is not "out of the way." (2) That each person's idea of the convenience of a situation is largely a matter of habit and custom...