Word: idea
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pleasingly a bunch of characteristic detail. The author's sense of smell seems to be exceptionally acute. Most of us would find it hard to describe the odor either of a swarm of bees or of a maiden-hair fern. In "The, Golden Calf" Mr. Pulsifer expounds a false idea. Many men are neither the slaves nor the masters of money--professors, for example. F. Biddle's quatrain is expressed with neatness and restraint, and "The Wind" by Mr. C. P. Aiken is the most imaginative thing in the issue. Mr. Alfred, Noyes's "The Flowers of Old Japan...
With ruthless sarcasm the writer of the communication printed this morning ridicules the idea of a bonfire as a part of the John Harvard anniversary celebration. With clear and concise logic he shows the folly of adapting a method of rejoicing over athletic victories to an occasion so sacred as the birth of our founder. We understand that some men may feel above such a childish display of animal spirits, but we scan the communication in vain to find an adequate alternative. True, the writer suggests that the Faculty should have planned academic ceremonies which would conform to the dignity...
...idea has recently been suggested to me, which, if properly carried out, would seem to add a much needed stimulus to one side of the game of football. One of the greatest criticisms that is heard at the present time against the game is that it is too rough and of no use to us after we leave college. Both of these facts are, of course, falsehoods, but that does not in any way diminish the harm they do in the popular mind...
...three years with Freshman teams and one year with the University nine make him eminently fit to lead another team to victory. His qualifications rest not only upon his success of last season against Yale, but also upon the spirit which he infused into the team, and the idea which he worked on-that the baseball season is not a perpetual round of drudgery, but an opportunity so get the most enjoyment out of the sport and at the same time to develop a team capable of defeating our most important rivals...
...that they have not been unprogressive. He instanced the evolution of the modern Roman Mass out of the Coptic Mass, marked by the conversion of the solid wall of masonry which originally separated the celebrants from the congregation, into a light screen, together with the substitution of the idea of spiritual sacrifice for the actual slaughter of beasts. Furthermore, President Eliot said, the Catholic Church was not estranged from science: this was shown by the recent establishment of the Carney Hospital in Boston. Although this institution has been in operation only a year, it has already surpassed both the Massachusetts...