Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...including fifty dollars still to be paid up-Professor de Sumichrast, also, spoke on the last play and on plans for next year. "L' Avare," "Les Facheux" and "Les Femmes Savantes" were suggested. It was also decided to have several smaller private performances during the year. The idea is to present before the club and invited guests short comedies of this century. They will be got up with much less trouble and attention than the regular annual performance. The president was authorized to appoint a dramatic committee for this purpose...
...have no right to take the hard earned money of some and give it to the less fortunate. Others, who go to the other extreme, desire that there should be an equitable distribution of goods. But this is pure idealism and we all know that human nature makes this idea impossible. Between these two courses the state must steer an intermediate course. The large sums expended annually for state schools for the deaf, the blind, lunatics, and for other charitable institutions is proof that the popular mind is in favor...
...closest ties of interest and sympathy, and this coupled with an explicit threat of war. To warn the men of this University that any discussion or criticism of this position of our government can spring only from the lowest motives, and must instantly stop, involves such a novel idea of popular government and such a singular conception of patriotism that serious argument about it is almost impossible. For three weeks thinking men have talked of nothing else, and there has been no stint of outspoken criticism. Unless Mr. Roosevelt has it also on hand to go on and shut...
...What I have said is that the impression has prevailed that our athletic teams have not been representative, and I have cited the existence of this impression as an indication of the lack of unanimity in times past. It makes no difference whether there were actual grounds for this idea, or not; the chief fact is that it has existed. Personally, I do not believe that even in the worst days of Harvard athletics, before Mr. Pierce came to college, captains consciously allowed themselves to be influenced by favoritism, although the result of their selection may have justified a contrary...
Every man who thinks he would probably be a member of the club if it were in existence, is requested to sign one of the blue-books, in order to give the graduate committee an idea of the demand for such a club...