Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...possible. This system substitutes a false object in the mind of the student, as it is impossible that he should not be influenced by the desire to attain a distinction on which rest the prizes of college life." He was in favor of the instructor's forming a general idea of the value of a man's work which cannot be measured by numbers...
...order that the management of the extension fire ladders may be understood, the superintendent of the yard has suggested that the students practice placing and running them up. The idea is a good one since the ladders are rather complicated machines which could not be properly handled without previous practice, and since, moreover, Mr. Knapp and Mr. Eveleth, who understand the management, both live some little distance from the yard. It would be advisable for the proctors and other officers of government, particularly, to acquire a knowledge of the management of the ladders, since they are always resident...
...days ago that Mr. Pach received back the negatives furnished for the sample, and found that, in order to accommodate four to a page, they had been cut down to a size that rendered it impossible to secure cabinet pictures from them. Therefore we must give up the idea of a heliotype album for $12. I immediately conferred with the Heliotype Company as to the best course to be pursued, and all they can offer is the large album, containing two pictures on a page, and, of course, twice the number of leaves. The pictures will not be so crowded...
...atmosphere" has fallen into such disrepute that it is dangerous to use it seriously. It would be a lamentable fact if the air of a university town were not a little rarified, if there were not that purer ether and diviner air around us; but people laugh at the idea, and arguments break like straws against ridicule. But this atmosphere is very apparent, let us say at Cambridge, England, where each college has its characteristic feature, and hence offers peculiar inducements to men of this or that taste. To be more specific, at Cambridge there are seventeen colleges, differing...
...commission have brought so prominently before the country, claims the careful attention of all who are interested in the policy of our government, and these lectures, covering the past and present policy of the country in regard to tariff, will furnish an easy means of getting a good general idea of the subject. The announcement of these lectures calls forth the question whether it would not be well to have every year a course of lectures on the practical questions of the day. Our courses in Political Economy can hardly be said to cover these subjects, though they give...