Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recently. The college has already mourned the loss of Dr. Brooks and is still mourning him. The sad news of yesterday but adds fresh cause for grief. We who are now in college can hardly appreciate what Dr. Peabody has been to Harvard. We can form little idea of the vast influence for good which he exerted for the college while in the vigor of his life. It is rather for those who have gone before us to have had the privilege of his personal acquaintance in the class room and chapel. Yet occasionally he has preached...
...normal condition the larger part of a man's actions are imitative. Society owns and uses him, and wisely so, but the imitation is normally not the most prominent thing because of the individual's idea that he is having...
...ancient astronomers came to the general idea of the spherical shape of the earth for they observed that as one travelled north or south he found that the position of the pole in regard to the position of the zenith changed. If one travelled south, the pole became farther distant from the zenith, and if north, it became nearer. This then took place either because the earth was round or the pole was an object so near that it might be passed and left behind. But the ancients observed that the stars were very far distant and therefore arrived...
...finally by the Athletic Committee and will be applied to all athletes at Harvard after the calendar year of 1893. irrespective of any regulations which other colleges may determine upon. We believe that our scheme will purify effectively all forms of athletics; at the same time it maintains the idea of university teams. We do not stipulate that any other college shall fall in line with us; yet we shall be glad to see them do so. We shall not refuse to play colleges because they differ with us in our views of the proper restrictions which should be placed...
Lecture. The Constituents of a General Idea: The Relations of Feeling, Will, and Intellect. Professor Josiah Royce. Sever...