Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Acharnians" at New York, meet two or three evenings every week at the house of a professor, for the purpose of studying the details of the play, that they may enjoy it all the more when they witness it. It is a pity that such a capital idea was not suggested here at Harvard...
...eleven started for Princeton last night on the boat train, Fall River line. The original idea was for the team to spend Friday and Friday night in New York, going down to Princeton on Saturday morning in time to get in a little practice before the game. One of the Princeton faculty, Professor Macpharen, however, invited the whole team, substitutes and all, to come and stay with him all the time they were away from Cambridge. This invitation was gladly accepted, and the team will go down to Princeton Friday morning. They will come back Sunday night, arriving in Cambridge...
...living now or hereafter." The graduates met on Commencement day, 1848, and as the preface runs, "having received so much pleasure from the reunion of early friends, and the recollections of pleasures, which time had only served to impress more deeply, decided to do their part to foster the idea of semicentennial reunions." The plan was to divide each page of the book into halves vertically. On the left division the graduates were to sign their names as they left college, and those who were present at the class meeting fifty years later were to place their signatures...
...first pages of this rare book contain papers relating to the semicentennial celebration of those who started the idea, and newspaper accounts of the meeting and dinner at which "fifteen of the eighteen surviving members of the class of 1788 were present." One of these was the famous Justice Story, whose autograph is given...
...sides in the old dear dispute. Certainly it is not necessary for us to praise in full what we doubt was a very lukewarm condition of religious zeal; but we may well rejoice in the occurrence as a breaking open of what had been a very hard and tight idea of religious experience. It was a protest in behalf of the variety and spontaneity of spiritual life. It was a claiming of its rights for the soul of man. So it was in the region of experience, a true enlargement of the deep life of the college...