Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Business is the Alpha and Omega of American life. To it everything else is subordinated. One of the results of this mercenary spirit is the expression that a man is "worth" so much, when the amount of his property is meant. With the early acquired idea that anything is worth nothing that costs nothing, the average American loses sight of everything but the making of money...
...shall endeavor from this time to have in the paper a larger number of items concerning University organizations with a view both to furnishing thereby interesting reading, and to providing a better avenue by which such organizations may make themselves known. To carry out this idea we shall write to the secretaries of the various non-secret societies asking them to feel free to send us items of general interest and notices of meetings, elections, and the like. We believe that such items as these will tend to make the societies better known, and to enlarge their spheres of usefulness...
...have common interests with all of them. We sometimes think that we are the most highly cultured race of all peoples and we tend to divide and classify people from a very narrow point of view. If sometimes a man is advanced enough to throw off his old ideas and to see that all men are equal, he thinks that he has made a great step and that he is far ahead of other people. Really all he has done is to succeed in coming back to the natural state of things. He looks at the idea of universal brotherhood...
...afford the students an idea of the business and mechanical departments of a newspaper, a printing office will be established in the college and the students will be given full charge. Lectures will be given frequently by distinguished journalists and written exercises and practical newspaper work will form an important part of the course...
...editor to trace the varied interests and occupations of his life by means of carefully chosen extracts from his own letters. These were, of course, largely on scientific subjects; but when the majority have been omitted, there yet remains enough to give an idea of the personality of the writer...