Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...never to be overlooked, and yet the evil of the system is far less than its good. It places before every student the opportunity of enlarging himself where the fullest growth is possible, it tends to the economy of mental power, and is certainly the characteristic of the modern idea of education. It has added richly to Harvard's reputation that she has been the pioneer for this country in the introduction of the system...
...very large-the cost of board is the most important variable in expenses. The increased price of board would have one of two effects. Either such students must content themselves with poorer board and the inevitable reaction on health and intellectual power, or else they must give up the idea of Harvard and choose some other university...
...because they have been favored by exceptional racing water. The very necessity of the bumping races, in vogue at both, bespeaks the difficulties with which they have had to contend. Neither can it be attributed to the greater quantity of material. I know it is the popular American idea that both Oxford and Cambridge have between 4000 and 5000 students each, but the facts are that the former has something like 2400, and the latter about...
Towards this idea, our first feeling was one of repugnance. When, however, the matter was examined in detail, when it was discovered precisely why this move was made and precisely in what it will result, our feeling changed. The courses opened are only those in which advanced work is pursued; these courses are more expensive than any others and their duplication at Radcliffe cannot be afforded. Radcliffe students must be admitted to them here, or else be debarred altogether...
After little unfavorable comment on the recent inconsistency of the Faculty with regard to the nineteenth of April, the Advocate in its editorials goes on to a consideration of some important difficulties of the present athletic situation. The gist of the writer's idea is that even if the authorities are convinced of the evil of the present system of athletics, they should proceed carefully in choosing a remedy, lest they crush the symptom and leave the disease untouched. Above all they should beware of weakening the main source of the old "college feeling," which the intensely individualistic tendencies...