Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is a common idea, he said, that the Bible has suffered from the criticism to which it has been subjected during recent years and that it no longer has the value which it had when it first became the common property of the people. Let us, with all reverence and humility, consider what the Bible is to us now and how it has been affected by the controversies...
...times like these that the independent idea arises, and men not knowing clearly where they belong, stay out and try to hold the balance between parties; but such men ignore the fact that achievement is possible only by compromise and union. What parties need now is not principles, but men, the best, the wisest men of the country. In the face of this need the answer of the independent comes like hollow mockery. Well might parties say to such men: "We asked for bread and ye gave us a stone...
First of all American illustrators stands Abbey. His resources are inexhaustible. Whenever he is called on to interpret a work he can find the idea in his own mind, and yet he invariably realizes the ideal of the author. He always copies from a true model. If he wants to draw an old-fashioned spinet he does not paint a cut down Steinway Grand, but he gets the real article without any regard to trouble or expense. One great reason of his success is his innate personal refinement...
Chief of caricaturists is A. B. Frost. Full of humor himself, he catches the idea of the author and always succeeds in making the situation a little funnier than the author had conceived it. Besides his caricatures, his sketches of Negro and camp life are not excelled by any in sincerity and genuineness...
...prominent graduate of Harvard, who is an authority on heraldic matters, has become interested in introducing the custom into this country. He has sent here several Harvard shields and also reproductions of the shields of Cambridge and Oxford Universities, and of Emmanual College from which John Harvard graduated. The idea of introducing this custom here seems to me so good that its success is ensurnd if only the attention of the students is called...