Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fairest method of getting an idea of the comparative strength of the different teams is by considering the prospects for each event separately...
...scoring rule is attracting more attention to the members of last year's freshman classes who may be point-winners this year. The following table gives an idea of the strength which last year's freshman teams contribute to Harvard, Pennsylvania, Yale, Cornell, Princeton, and Dartmouth. The best records of the men during 1913 are given...
...Only a few years ago Joseph Pulitzer left a sum of money for the establishment at Columbia of a institution whose usefulness, where it was not taken humorously, was regarded as doubtful. Today thirty-two schools of journalism are copying, with some degree of success, the original Pulitzer idea. For the real measure of the success of these schools we shall have to wait, of course, for the next generation of newspaper workers. But no one, within or without the newspaper office, who takes the newspaper seriously, can escape the hope that the greatest of public functions will be perceptibly...
...team was losing a dual meet to Cornell, the University Glee Club was singing its way to victory in the first Intercollegiate Singing Contest. If the University limbs proved inferior to those of Cornell, the University throat at least, established its supremacy, and in a valuable field. As the idea originated in the University and as the contest was arranged by members of the department of music, the responsibility for its perpetuation clearly rests with the University also. Such a contest, which should, and eventually will, embrace many more colleges, is bound to make for better singing, better glee clubs...
...arrests for drunkenness has increased by 49,272, or 88 per cent, and the annual average increase has been 4,106 arrests per year; statistics of grave import to the state. Although it is impossible to estimate in dollars the yearly cost of inebriety to the Commonwealth, yet an idea of the expense may be obtained when it is considered that the cost arising from 63.4 per cent of all arrests and 67.6 per cent of all commitments to prison made during the year, together with a considerable percentage of the cost of probation, trial and transportation of prisoners...