Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...society was founded May 4, 1837, by John Bacon '37, (president), W. I. Bowditch '38, P. T. Jackson '38, T. W. Stone '38, and J. W. Thaxter '38. Members were originally taken only from the two upper classes, but this idea was given up, and the growth of the society increased rapidly. From the beginning, the college authorities granted it valuable privileges, and a room in Massachusetts Hall in which to hold meetings and keep the specimens and library. In 1860 a second room adjoining the first was acquired...
...first race two crews were called out and immediately set to work rowing in barges and pair-oars. Later the men were put in the shells in which they have been rowing for about two weeks. Mr. Willis has stroked both boats to give the men a correct idea of the stroke as it should be rowed. Both crews are evenly matched and rowing in very good form...
...idea expressed by the writer, that both the action taken and the comment thereon were direct cuts at the dignity of Yale University, and intended to belittle the record of this year's Yale team, is so utterly foreign to the spirit in which the H's were removed and the editorials written, that we find it hard to believe that such a misconception can have obtained general foothold in New Haven. Nothing could be further from our intention than to condemn the team for falling to win. Without any reference whatever to the result of either game...
...Dohs intended to have a class at 4 o'clock for heavier exercise, but owing to the irregularity with which the men attended, the idea has been given up at least till after Christmas...
...extending the hospitality and co-operation of the various religious societies of the College. Phillips Brooks was greatly interested in this proposition and offered his services in whatever way he could do the most to materialize the project. Immediately after his death the project gradually developed into the present idea of erecting a "Phillips Brooks Hall," and now the University Corporation has granted for its site the north-west corner of the College Yard...