Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...theme of this great work is carried again and again into the minutest details and repeated by all the parts of the orchestra. The fabric is composed of the most intricate interweaving of part into part, yet all so skillfully that the effect of a perfect whole, a complete idea, is left with the hearer...
Comenius was born on March 28, 1592, and was one of the greatest educational reformers that ever lived. Though living and writing in the seventeenth century, he was possessed with nineteenth century ideas and some of the forms which he sought to introduce into the schools of his time, are still urged by progressive educators, though only recently finding favor and adoption. The following extract from the English version of the proposal of these celebrations gives one a glimpse of his work and character: "Born in Moravia, working amongst Czechs, Germans, English, Dutch, Swedes and Hungarians, with friends in France...
...idea of playing the first game on neutral grounds strikes one as simply absurd. It has never been done before. There would be little interest taken by the undergraduates in a game played on neutral grounds, and there is no excuse in the world for playing games on neutral grounds except in case...
...last debate took part in last evening's contest. There seemed to be on both affirmative and negative sides a misunderstanding of the real meaning of the question. The tendency, with few exceptions, was to argue either for complete freedom of immigration or total prohibition of it, the idea of the restrictive part of the subject being overlooked entirely...
...grow in sympathy with our laws and institutions. Anarchism and pauperism are the exceptions which can be dealt with by law. Corruption in politics, so unjustly traced to the immigrants, is instigated by natural-born Americans and by political bosses. Moreover restriction of immigration is in-inconsistent with our idea of liberty and democracy and by prohibiting, because of the few bad cases we do a great injustice to the by far greater part of worthy, well-seeking people who in this country seok refuge from oppression and freedom in political and religious thought and action. If they...