Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...danger in it, for toward the end of his life, was a period of Catholic domination, when the whole spirit of affairs seemed subjected to Catholic influence. Professor Emerton defined first the term "Catholic" and gave a historical sketch of the growth of the Church. The Catholic idea was originally an educational one; a scheme for the regeneration of men. At the time when it originated, there were many systems of philosophy, but the hope of a future for religion had to be based on something besides these, something of more vital interest to men. Rome, the great centre...
...Inartistic Hero," in a certain quaintness of conception and peculiarity of style, reminds us of its author's production in the last number of the Advocate, "Husband versus Poet." The idea of the tale is original and the effect is, on the whole, good, - although marred in places by incoherence of diction...
...following is Walter Camp's idea of the strongest foot ball team in the world: ends; Hinckey, Yale, and Hallowell, Harvard; tackles, Winter, Yale, and Newell, Harvard; guards, Heffeltinger, Yale, and Riggs, Princeton: centre, Balliet, Lehigh; quarter-back, King, Princeton: half-backs, L. Bliss, Yale, and Lake, Harvard; fullback, Homans, Princeton...
...circles to regard it as merely a favor that the club gives anything to the crew, or gives a concert for its benefit. It is hardly necessary to point out to the officers of the glee club that it would be very unfortunate for the club to have this idea become prevalent in the college. The petition for the western trip is now backed by all the influence which the college can put behind it. But it is necessary to suggest that it would be very easy to have that petition meet an open hostility which could hardly prove anything...
After reading the article, Professor Royce discussed it, informally, with the members of the Union. The key-note, he said, of the modern idea in Ethics is that what should be sought is not, as the Utilitarians said, the greatest sum-total of good, but the highest organization, - the greatest good which can be obtained while still keeping development of the individual; in other words the modern idea is the greatest good to the greatest number of distinct individuals, as opposed to the Utilitarian idea of the greatest sum of good...