Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most interesting events will be the handicap intercollegiate race. Entries for this are expected from a number of colleges, and some idea of the result of the race at the Mott Haven games may be forecast...
...proverb among the Jews, Over and over again they relapsed, but there was constantly held before them by their prophets the vision of a beautiful land. Where there are no visions the people perish. It is not what a nation possesses or acquires, but it is the national idea which pervades its life. Our own country is not great by what it has, but what it dreams. It is our national ideas which keep us safe and pure...
...speaker Showed how faulty these methods were, and promised in the next lecture to suggest a remedy. He said in substance: The idea which governs local taxations in the United States is that if taxation is to be equitable everything must be taxed. This theory is supported plausibly enough by the argument that property of every description is protected by the state, and therefore liable to taxation. In an early state of society, when all property was visible and tangible, the above theory was not found impracticable. But even then it necessitated personal inquisitions, and was always unpopular. In modern...
Although it is generally considered unnecessary, and even a waste of time for a boy who expects to go into business to go to college, Mr. Smith thought this idea is being gradually eradicated, for the ideal merchant of the present times must be an educated man in order to keep up with the times. Integrity is of course absolutely essential to a business man. The speaker said too that every young man should learn to speak French and German if he wished to have the best chance of succeeding, and the Spanish language must be regarded as of increasing...
...will be remembered that at the Foot Ball dinner last fall a great deal was said about the feeling of undergraduates toward graduates. It appeared at the time that an idea had for some time prevailed among the graduates that the undergraduates were jealous of any interference on the part of graduates in the management of college athletics. This sounded strange to most of the undergraduates who were present and was not understood; for the greater part of the men in college bad considered graduate opinion to be invaluable. The graduates have evidently found their ideas about the undergraduates were...