Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Woodrow Wilson, Fellow of Johns Hopkins. The work is a clearly written exposition of the method by which our governmental machinery is run. The majority of American voters have but a crude conception of the labors which lie before each incoming congress, and a still more indefinite idea of the way in which these labors are performed. It is with interest, and often with surprise, that one reads the description of the extraordinary powers conferred upon the House committees, which, in reality, are the potent factors in our national legislation. After gaining from this work some slight comprehension...
...doing its best to bring discredit upon her. Its presence was first indicated this year, by the defacing of the Harvard statue and the chapel; its last exhibition has been even more foolish and dangerous. While England is being terrified by dynamite explosions, some men seized upon the idea that a little sensation of the kind would be interesting here. Accordingly, last week, a large cannon cracker was fired off at midnight in front of Matthews. As this did not produce the desired effect, another one was tied to a door knob in Thayer and went off, scorching the door...
...long to become an incorporate part of the University, the far famed Annex. Although this institution has aroused great interest in educational circles, it is, we fear, looked upon with too much indifference by the students of the college. We have known men to graduate without having the faintest idea of the relation which this, to them, almost mythical institution bears to the University. But whatever the attitude of the students may be towards the Annex, the professors surely, look upon it with the greatest favor. Prof. Byerly is chairman of the Academic Board; and more than forty...
...especially true in mathematics where much of the work is original, and where it is perfectly possible for a man who has a firm grasp of the subject to be balked at the beginning by a simple problem. Examinations may, and doubtless do, have their advantages, but the idea of giving a man the mark for his year's work on what he can write in a few hours, is simply absurd. Such a system begets superficial study, which is death to all true learning. We are glad to see that all this is being recognized, and that instructors...
...ever so small. The power of education seems to throw a gloss over all, and the life seems more quiet, re-fined and ideal. The presence of the students in the streets in England, attired in their ridiculously short gowns, in Germany with parti-colored caps, gives an idea of gaiety and life to the throng of busy passers-by. All is University, for the very townsfolk can do nothing but talk of this new rule, that escapade of the students, the coming boat race and the thousand and one occurrences that mark the daily life at any large college...