Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Goose Shooting on the Platte," by Oscar K. Davis. gives one a pretty good idea of how the feathered game may be bagged in the "Woolly West," while "A Cigarette from Carcinto," suggests the dangers that one may run in Upper Mexico...
...ethics has been felt for 2,000 years. It haunted Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, but they could give no solution. Even the stoics gave us no ethics in the light of science. The Christian revelation came in finally, with the doctrines of divine truth, and raised mankind. The idea of a science of ethics came to Francis Bacon. Today, the deplorable element in the advance of science, is that the physical sciences have exalted themselves, and imagine that they replace the heart. They draw all the attention. But in the study of a labor movement, there is no interest. What...
Brown is contemplating the idea of establishing a co-operative store...
...scholarships are awarded at the close of the fall term after an idea can be formed of the men's ability, and when once awarded may be held so long as the student keeps up his rank satisfactorily. There are at present thirty-two special scholarships, ranging in annual income from $70 to $140 and amounting in the aggregate to $3,270. In addition there are fifty trustee scholarships of $75 each, covering the amount of tuition. The charity fund of the academy has an income of about $1,500 and is awarded at the discretion of the trustees, upon...
...Symphony Concert last night, had attached to it a sentiment which served to heighten in no small degree, the pleasure which its own beauty would have given. Mr. Nikisch chose the evening's music with the special idea of making it a memorial to Mr. Lowell, and no better choice could have been made, to bring back to mind the variety of gift and emotion which characterized his nature. The Symphonies, especially Beethoven's, are eminently human in quality, and it is due to just this fact, that they inspire so much feeling in people. There was an evident fitness...