Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Appleton Chapel yesterday evening Professor Lyon spoke on the necessity of work, John ix, 4. He said: Every one must work. The abolition of slavery did away with the idea that toil is degrading, and the present age exacts of each his daily task. Even the wealthy seek some useful employment. Work brings health, peace and happiness, and wonderfully develops the worker's character; how many put off work until the night comes! To how many does the sun pass into eclipse at noon-day! Christ's life of work was that of a young man, and his teachings...
...membership we have now some three hundred so-called "working men" of Cambridgeport and vicinity. These men, during the year of the existence of the Union, have come to have a high idea of the helpfulness and manliness of Harvard students, from personal contact here with a considerable number of them. This new evidence of "brotherly" feeling on the part of the college calls forth an enthusiastic expression of respect for and thankfulness to the students who have been so ready to help us. I wish I could adequately express how deeply the members of our Union appreciate the kindness...
...publication, as speedily as may be, of the accounts of the association, together with a statement of the history of the training table, of the causes which led to its failure, and of the possibility or impossibility of reviving it successfully in the future. We believe that the idea of a general training table is in itself good, but we are not at all prepared to deny that there were faults innate in the plan pursued last year which made success for that time, with whatever management, impossible. The CRIMSON particularly desires, therefore, not to be understood as prematurely casting...
Very little idea can be gotten, of the candidates as yet, very few of the old men being out. In the course of two or three weeks the work will be harder and about all of the old men will be at work...
...author of "Mixed Doubles" evidently has a curious idea of the cerebral ruminations of the average Duluth man, for that an inhabitant of that "Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas" - as he tersely designates Duluth - should take an expelled Yale junior for the Republican candidate for Governor of the State, and a Colonel at that certainly reflects small credit on the people of that city. The comedy of errors which ensues is amusing but the extreme incongruousness of the plot rather vitiates the effect of the whole...