Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...general. It would certainly seem that there could be no danger of the opposition of future undergraduates. Those who come here take things as they find them. If applied only to Freshmen as has been suggested, there could thus be little fear of its meeting with opposition. The idea of a Freshman attempting to clog the administrative wheels of an established course, is rather chimerical...
...good reasons why every young man in the country who has the impulse to enlist should think twice before he follows it we can not doubt; President Eliot has made for us a very clear and noble aualysis of the different motives to enlistment. But two of the ideas presented in the editorial are so novel to a graduate that I can not forbear a comment. The first is the proposition that the patriotism of college men is different from that of Americans who haven't the good fortune to go to college; the other is the notion...
...Willis took final leave of the crew yesterday morning, and will sail from New York this afternoon at 10 o'clock for England. In returning to this country with Mr. Lehmann in the spring, Mr. Willis's idea was to remain just six weeks, and he has now been called away at the expiration of that time, to take his old place at seven in the Leander boat the first of June...
...justify fully such encouragement as scrub baseball has received during the last two seasons, well supported class series are necessary,since the main idea in making such a point of scrub baseball, is to arouse more general interest in the game, get more men out for their class teams, and generally raise the standard of play. Inevitably a scrub series such as the one just completed, puts off the date when candidates for the class teams can be called out, and by bringing the interclass games in close proximity to the final examinations, may deter a few men who might...
...conditioned and unfortunate people of Europe. Whereas, for the first fifty or sixty years after the adoption of the Constitution, our population was augmented almost entirely by people who had had experience in self-government, today the additions come from countries where the people are degraded and the democratic idea hardly exists. It is unnatural to suppose that evolution to a bigher type can take place for many years to come. The speaker then went on to show many specific evils that actualty exist, especially in the congested portions of our large cities and in mining camps as a direct...