Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good. The idea is wise, is it practicable? Few could desire more sincerely than I a more ready interchange of thought, a more frequent and perfect contact of professors with students; because the influence of such matured men on our uncrystallized character could not but be good, and also because I think we, the undergraduates, are rather inclined to let matters take their course, do not see fully or fully appreciate the far-reaching fore sight and careful wisdom that is changing Harvard from college to university, and are rather passive, not caring to co-operate very enthusiastically with...
...students, are they anxious to offer some more personal assistance than mere lecture room intercourse affords? Mr. Wendell says they are. And the student - is he agreed? Everybody knows this. There is, then, very little reason why a university society should not be formed. It is a practicable idea; it is a new idea; it will certainly prove a popular idea, if sufficient support be rendered it. After all, it seems strange that professor and scholar with identical objects in view are personally so indifferent to each other. It reminds one of men who live on the closest business terms...
...reason why he should not make himself acceptable to his companions rather than otherwise. President Dwight draws a line between a true gentleman and a gentleman of leisure." In other words a gentleman must do his share of the world's work. This is essentially a modern idea; it is a northern idea and a republican idea; and it deserves support everywhere...
...Ball," a poem (for want of a better word) of some half dozen stanzas, expresses in verse what the title says in prose, and it has this good point, that its author does not pretend to any wonderfully poetic idea, and does not try to express it in hexameter or pompous blank verse, and so we have a simple college poem which is sufficient unto itself...
...similar pieces coming before it, and thus the reader perchance would have desired something other than a story. But "Princess Capricia" is brightly told, and by leaving the matter in hand a little in doubt keeps the interest up after reading. The author has hit upon a good idea there...