Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number. Its aim is to stimulate men to become more than mere plodders or idlers along the intellectual highway; to show the vast superiority of those students who. putting aside the petty spirit which drives men to work for marks or examinations alone, adopt instead an ultimate idea of true and broad culture. An abuse too prevalent at Harvard-the nursing system of private tutors-is treated with the open and unqualified contempt it deserves. If the Monthly continues thus ably to discuss matters of great importance for the welfare of the University, it will be certain to obtain...
...Americans. The almost universally accepted modifications of the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal" are fully upheld in the assertion that our country is not to be thought of as merely an asylum for the pporessed. The duty of selfpreservation is the central idea of the article...
...have gladly remained in training if a race could have been secured. Yale will begin official negotiations very shortly with Cambridge relative to arranging a race if it is possible to do so. One or two things, however, may prove rather considerable obstacles. In the first place, any idea of a race between Yale and Cambridge in April, as has been suggested by the newspapers, is out of the question. Yale has only a week's vacation in April, and it would not be possible for the men to go across the water then. They would lose too much time...
...that a standard of sportsmanship exists among the college men, different from that which prevails among the professionals, but such a feeling has not been observable in this foot-ball controversy. The Harvard foot-ball management had not the least inkling that the faculty of that institution had any idea of placing them in the embarrassing position they have found themselves in, and from which they were utterly unable to escape. If the members of the intercollegiate association had any idea that there was to have been any outside interference, as has been the case, it is more than probable...
...college of William and Mary at Virginia, influenced by the invasion of the normal idea in the South, has now become a non-sectarian. The courses have been greatly changed and the college has a decidedly "normal" trend. Every student is obliged to teach two years in some public school in the State, and in return his tuition fees are paid as long as he remains at the college. The degree of Licentiate of Instruction is conferred after the completion of the first two years. The college numbers at present...