Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although the Babylonian inscriptions from Persepolis were translations of the deciphered old Persian, yet the difficulty of the Babylonian script stood in the way of reading the Babyilouian characters. A given sign did not always represent the same sound nor the same idea. One could read the shorter Babylonian inscriptions without knowing how to pronounce a single sign. By degrees it was seen that the various signs were syllables and not letters. From this discovery the work went rapidly forward. In 1857 so much had been written on the subject that the Royal Asiatic Society of London appointed a committee...
...when he comes to college, has no very clear idea of how to conduct himself at recitations, certainly he ought to have had ample chance to learn in the first half-year, and after the mid-years be able to go into a lecture-room and sit for an hour without either disgracing himself or disturbing his neighbors...
President Eliots idea, one with which many will agree, is that a tuition ought to be charged in the high and normal schools, and the money so received directed to securing better teachers and more thorough instruction. If this plan should be carried out it is thought that not only would young men be able to come to college, and go into business earlier, but that the practice of "jumping college" would be put a stop to, which means that a large proportion of our business men would receive a much fuller and more complete education...
...nearly four years. Mr. Thayer stated that although what he had to say had no direct bearing on English B, yet he hoped it would prove of value, not only to those of his hearers who intended to enter journalism, but to all who wished to gain some idea of how a newspaper is conducted. He then gave a concise account of the different departments of a newspaper and how the news is collected...
Anthropology may be looked on as being the link which connects all other branches of science, and we may thus through it, obtain a just idea not only of the relative position occupied by each science, but of its importance to the human race. It has the same refining effect as travel, since it brings one in contact with the rest of the world, and so we can make comparisons and from these comparisons form correct estimates of the bearing of one thing upon another...