Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...people, Dr. Everett said, have recognized the idea of malignant spirits; we find them in almost every nation at almost every time...
...people, including Canary and Lederer's original Casino pickaninny band, John F. Henshaw, Charles J. Ross, George A. Schiller, William Cameron, Gus Pixley, Seymour Hess, E. S. Tarr, Vernona Jarbeau, Lucy Daly, Madge Lessing, Sylvia Thorne, May Ten Broeck and others. "The Passing Show" is an entirely new idea in the theatrical line. The piece is a mixture of drama, comedy, farce, burlesque, travesty, opera and ballet, and contains any number of specialties...
There is a movement on foot to arrive at a better policy in regard to college matters by conferences in which members of the Faculty and students alike shall take part. For the suggestion of the idea college men are indebted to Professor de Sumichrast and Dean Briggs. The plans for these conferences have not yet been developed, and it is considered wisest not to publish any detailed facts in regard to them until an adequate plan has been fully realized...
...Yale's policy that is not perfectly legitimate. Why should not Harvard send coaches to Andover and Exeter and other schools this spring, or if not coaches, one or two men who have played on 'varsity teams within the last few years and can disabuse men of the idea that they will not have a "fair show" at Harvard. Harvard men are interested in these schools; why should they not show it? Of course something will be said about "advertising," but a good thing cannot be made bad by being called names. Harvard is a great University...
Traces of this old spirit of opposition are still to be found, and some members of the Faculty are far slower than others to relinquish the idea of an authority that is absolute. But within the past seven or eight years a great change has taken place and the bond of sympathy between the instructors and the students has grown much stronger. This result has been brought about by several causes. The creation of a board of freshman advisers has had the effect of making the first year men feel that the members of the Faculty are capable...