Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Feminology" is based on rather a novel conception, and would be interesting if only the idea were better worked up. The number also contains an amusing dialect story of "Henry Clay's Conversion," by J. P. Warren...
...magician's touch to give them the fascination of romance. Parkman's style was distinctively picturesque as well as true to life. This latter quality was gained by a most painstaking study of all places and people of whom he wrote. Of the Indian character he gained an intelligent idea by long contact with the Indians themselves. In this he has performed invaluable service to the world, as he preserved in his records, at a period when it was fast passing away, a stage of civilization which in a few years would have been lost to the memory...
...statements in the newspapers to the effect that students of the Annex under the new agreement will be admitted to the full privileges of the University, are absolutedly incorrect. They have already given outsiders the idea that something like co-education is to be put into practice here, while in reality the distinction between the Annex and the college is to remain exactly as at present...
...services are held every Thursday during term time through the winter. They are purposely made short and simple in character and are not intended to be strict services of worship, but rather to serve as pleasant breaks in the monotony of the long winter weeks. To carry out this idea there is a great deal of music and a very short address by some well known preacher, whose coming, however, is not announced beforehand. The services are open to the public and are always very largely attended on pleasant days. In all the religious life of the University there...
...From a Graduate's Window" contains the suggestion that the pictures now on the walls of Memorial be removed to the new art museum when that building is completed. The idea is taken from an imaginary conversation of the characters represented by the portraits, who put their dignity aside when left alone on moonlight nights...