Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Alfred Momerie, D. D., of London, preached in Appleton Chapel last night from a text taken from the nineteenth chapter of Matthew, "What God hath joined together let no man put asunder." He said: The idea that science and religion, or science and theology are incompatible is very common, but is wholly untrue. Science is systematized and classified knowledge. Theology is certainly included in this definition, and so cannot be opposed to science in general. But what is usually meant by science used in contrast to theology is natural science or physics. But really there is nothing inconsistent between physics...
...readers. It would be an unpleasant admission for them, but their work generally is more interesting the more commonplace it becomes. Few would not take more pleasure in following the fairly easy rhyming and rythm of P. L. Shaw's piece, "The Burial of Alaric," than in separating the idea of Eugene Warner's "Loneliness," from the confusion of words in which the author has clothed...
...Bennett has offered similar prizes to other colleges as well, including Yale and Princeton, and the less important conditions as to the choice of a subject, the rules of composition, etc., he has left for the Faculty of each college to arrange as shall best suit each case. His idea is that the prize be adapted locally to each college in which it is established while maintaining the same general plan...
This is precisely the mood which we urge the students to cultivate just at this time, for their patience and their faith in the team are soon to be put to a much harder test. Early next week the team will be decided upon, or at least a good idea of its composition will be in the minds of the authorities; work on Soldier's Field will then begin, and the actual campaign for the Springfield game will open in earnest. This work will be done in secret, behind closed gates. With this secret practice, chances for the usual crop...
...expectation of having Courtney as coach for the 'varsity next spring must be abandoned. The alumni of Cornell were thoroughly aroused over the idea of his withdrawal, and when he actually came here this fall to coach Captain Davis, they protested so strongly that the naval officers took the affair in hand. A call for funds was made and such liberal response received that they have enough money on hand to pay Courtney an increased salary for the coming year, and enough pledged to keep him three years more. The outcome is that Courtney has written a refusal...