Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Such work cannot go on much longer. The men must keep time or they may as well stop rowing. They, like all freshmen crews, seem to think that this daily routine is a species of amusement furnished by the college for their particular enjoyment. The sooner they get this idea out of their heads the better will be their chances in the race next June. Rowing is no child's play; it requires all the assiduity a man can summon. Some things he must learn to do by instinct, one of them is keeping time...
...Waft of Summer" follows, which, though a good idea, fails to show itself on account of the words used. We cannot conceive of the wind "loitering" in "snow dust" that is "sculpturisque and fine...
...individual and the community. The low estimate put upon the individual was one of the causes of the fall of the Greek republics. One danger lies in the tendency to subordinate the state to the individual. Passing to the christian conception of the world, the speaker emphasized the idea that when we speak of the kingdoms of this world as destined to become the kingdoms of our Lord, we mean not merely China and Japan, but the kingdoms of trade, art, learning, science, government. The institutions, customs, opinions, feelings of society must become Christian...
Last evening Prof. Frothingham lectured before a large audience on Assyrian Literature. He said that in spite of the fact that a very large number of the Assyrian writings had been lost, a great mass still exists. An idea of its quantity can be had from the fact that an index to the existing literature, published in Munich, was an octavo volume of four hundred pages...
...seems that Princeton has taken up the Conference Committee idea. The committee which she is to have will be very similar in aim and composition to the one that we were treated to last year. We extend our hearty sympathy to the students of Princeton College and hope that the experiment which it has been decided to make trial of will be a valuable adjunct to the college government...