Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Those instructors who have a general oversight of the Evans Library make direct charges that men are stealing books from the library. The idea may seem hardly credible, yet the fact is that the books are disappearing. Harvard students are given more privileges and advantages in the use of the libraries than any other set of men we know of. It is very sure that the authorities will deprive us of these privileges, if student sentiment is not strong enough to prevent wholesale stealing of the books...
...Club, as has been its custom for the past few years, will give two public performances at the Club Theatre on Holyoke Street, on Monday and Tuesday evenings, April 20 and 21. These performances are intended to give the college in general a chance to see the theatricals. An idea has "got round" to the effect that these performances are open only to Pudding men. This is a mistake. The performances are open to the public; and especially to the students...
...Reed was the first man to start a school for training men to take charge of the various Y. M. C. A. gymnasiums. And this idea is taking root all over the country, that a college-bred man is better able to influence young men, not only from an athletic point of view, but also from the religious stand-point...
Professor Seymour began his lecture with an account of the Homeric idea of the heavenly bodies, as the sun, moon, and stars; of their navigation, and of their political life. The ideas of the Greeks of Homer's time, regarding the gods was, in one way, a reflection of their own social life. Their gods were not highly idealized, nor were they free from mortal passons and weaknesses. They feasted, hunted, and made long voyages after the custom of people on the earth...
...time-honored custom of requiring certain passages from the classics for admission. Now the stress is laid mostly on the ability to translate at sight. This was a substitution of a test of power for a test of memory. This change was adopted in other requirements. Although this idea of acquiring power rather than knowledge has only been put in practice about fifteen years it has got a firm hold on the institutions of the West...