Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...academic year. This year the speaking promises to be of the highest order of merit. Although some of the Boston papers last year criticised quite severely the "lifeless action and more lifeless diction" of the speakers as they were pleased to express it, this criticism arose from a mistaken idea of the true art of elocution, gained, perhaps, from a too great familiarity with the old style back country college oration. Mr. Jones's method in teaching is now beginning to bear up its fruits. His intention to inculcate naturalness both in voice and gesture, has led him to introduce...
...elective laws were then analyzed and the two systems scrutin d'arondisment and scrutin de listecompared. In connection with this topic, Gambetta's great work was mentioned, and some idea given of the excitement and difficulty of his position as a would be and partially successful reformer of the elective system. The practical working of the French government was illustrated by incidents from the lives of MacMahon, Thiers, Ferry, Grevy and others. Many practical comparisons were made between the French and American systems. Many questions were asked by different members of the society, all of which were answered...
...notices of the Shakspere club seem to be out of keeping with the idea that the play of Julius Caesar is to be placed on the stage according to the simplicity and modesty of Shakspere's time. Small type and black ink were then sufficient for the leading actors...
...premature deafness which shut him out from all the world of musical sound. Several interesting anecdotes were given of his eccentric habits. In his works he carried the art of music to its highest perfection, excelling in every branch. In orchestral music, especially, he holds absolute pre-eminence. The idea, however, that Beethoven had worked out the view of purely instrumental music, tacitly acknowledging, in fitting words to his 9th Symphony, that a higher form uniting words and music was henceforth to be supreme, an idea advanced by several late writers, Wagner among others, Prof. Paine regarded entirely unforunded...
...unfortunate reputation acquired in some past decade still clings vigorously in the minds of many, minds that must be either narrow or willfully ignorant. The services in the college chapel are of so unsec tarian a nature that any regular attender would soon see how absurd is the idea that brands Harvard as a "Unitarian college." A true view of the case can only be obtained by those who lead the daily life of the university and are in active contact with its observances. Unfortunately this impartial view cannot be obtained by outsiders, and as they express their opinions, whether...