Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...courses in the Elective Pamphlet for next year, probably none will be more acceptable than the one on German literature. The fact that Germany until our time has been divided into numerous states and principalities makes it difficult for the student to get a connected idea of its history and literature; and any help in this direction is to be welcomed. As the course is to be one hour, and to consist of lectures, a large number will undoubtedly elect it. To those students who have already taken several courses in German, it will be valuable as a kind...
...Geology. Three times a week. Professor SHALER. Course 4 can be taken twice a week, omitting the field work, if notice to that effect is given in advance." By the use of the dictionary, one gets a definition of geology; but that does not give a very clear idea of what the course is about. The next thing that needs further explanation is, Who conducts the course? It says, in the pamphlet, Professor Shaler. But Professor Shaler does not have charge of the field work. Mr. Davis and Mr. Diller have that. The next question is whether the two-hour...
...asked me, jokingly, "Why won't you come in and sit for us, Mr. Milburn ? We will pay you twenty-five cents an hour, and your car-fare, and you will have the pleasure of being looked at, admiringly, by a dozen girls." This struck me as quite the idea; so I agreed to go in and sit for their class three afternoons of a week, for two hours each...
...plan is hardly perfected as yet; but it is so simple, in comparison with my Electric Light, that I have given that idea...
...interest to state that Mr. Clark will probably be in '84 at Columbia, and will prove a dangerous opponent at the Intercollegiate next year, in case a bicycle race is added to the programme, which is more than probable, as Columbia, Princeton, and Harvard, all favor the idea...