Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...idea of a student board of government is due to President Seelye of Amherst, in accordance with whose suggestion the senate was established at that college about two years ago. As the body owes its origin thus to the faculty rather than to the students of Amherst, its continuance is well assured, and the powers with which it is invested are considerable...
...been President Seelye's idea that the constitution of the senate, like the English Constitution, so called, should grow up with time; and so it happens that at present the constitution covers scarcely a page in the secretary's book. The jurisdiction of the senate is by no means sharply defined as yet. Broadly stated, however, in substantially President Seelye's words, the faculty have to do, or should have to do, simply with the literary life of the college; while to the students, through the senate, is left the control of all matters in general, other than literary, with...
...making there. "Next evening I was at the play with them: it was 'Othello.' I sat close behind her and at the most affecting scenes I pressed my had upon her waist: she was in tears and rather leaned to me. The jealous Moor described my very soul." The idea of Boswell torn by an Othello-like passion is certainly a striking one. The next day he popped the question, "after sqeezing and kissing her fine hand, while she looked at me with those beautiful black eyes," but, alas, he was refused. His disappointment was very bitter...
...length, and, on going to bed, repeating it word for word, from beginning to end. De Quincey immortalized himself by his wonderful visions. There is that remarkable work of Cicero's on the vision of Scipio, a work that I have often thought must have suggested to Richter the idea embodied in his well-known Dream of The Universe. Bunyan is continually saying, "Now I saw in my dream." And thus a thousand and one instances might be cited, in which, merely as a flight of the imagination, or to serve a more practical Deus-ex-machina end, dreams have...
...pursue them." This is the more extraordinary because we cannot imagine theological students to be capable of a perfunctory performance at prayers, as is the case with ninety-nine hundredths of the undergraduates to whom the liberty of non attendance is denied. There is, therefore, nothing shocking in the idea of compulsion as applied to the former. We observe that among the lectures at the Divinity School last year was one on Vivisection, by the Dean of the Medical Faculty. This suggests the utility of a lecture to the undergraduates by the Dean of the Divinity School, setting forth...