Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...choice of sides was left to the Harvard committee and they chose the negative. Each speaker was allowed one speech of twelve minutes; twelve minutes was then allowed each side for rebuttal. This arrangement was a compromise between Princeton's idea of each speaker being allowed a second speech and Harvard's desire that each man should speak but once...
...wish to call attention again to the suggestion, offered by "Senior" in your issue of March 22, that the mortar-board tassels be of crimson rather than of black. Several '95 men whom I have asked about the matter agree with me that the idea is an excellent one; so I wish to use this means to help induce the Class Day Committee to adopt the new plan...
Beside requiring us to pay attention to our physical well-being, Christianity enjoins upon us a broad and deep intellectual culture. The old idea was that the true faith could only be preserved by the suppression of free thought, but we find Christ Himself reasoning with men and asking them their opinions. In these days, as always, every seeker after truth is following Christ's teaching. Our colleges and universities have been founded by Christian men for the advancement of Christianity, and built up with Christian toil and sacrifice...
...morning, respecting the object of the conference and the intentions of the committee and a member of the Faculty, they have decided to abandon the project, and no conference will be held. They desire to state explicitly that the football question was not to be discussed and that no idea of a senate or anything approaching to or resembling it was even broached or thought...
Professor F. B. Crocker spoke last night before the Harvard Engineering Society on "The Exactness of Electrical Engineering." The popular idea that electrical science was in its infancy is very erroneous, in Professor Crocker's opinion. That electrical engineering is an exact science is proved by the rapid strides which it has taken of late years; for no practical science could advance so energetically unless there was a close relation between its theory and practice...