Word: idea
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Fogg Museum, this evening at 8 o'clock. He will show how, in the history of thought, man, nature and God have been looked upon as entirely separate from each other. Idealistic philosophy has established a real relation, in some sense a unity, of the three. This idea of their relation has brought about an almost complete transformation, in some respects, of religious teaching, the main points of which will be discussed by the speaker...
...indefinite exercises in the Stadium, but upon a number of alternatives, such as: No exercises at all, the Yale baseball game on Class Day afternoon or outdoor theatricals in the semi-circular end of the Stadium. If we must use the Stadium, it seems to me that the latter idea would be sufficiently attractive, if properly carried out, to insure the co-operation of the class and its friends in attending them. Moreover, it would establish a pretty custom and one which other classes would be glad to repeat...
Klapproth, an exuberant provincial, during a visit to Berlin desires to enjoy an adventure which in the telling will outclass the experiences of a rival sight-seer in his native town. He hits upon the idea of visiting a sanitarium for persons mentally unbalanced and promises to start a nephew of his in business if he will arrange for such an adventure. The nephew resolves upon the rash expedient of taking his uncle to the Pension Scholler, a private and eminently sane boarding house...
...belonging to the general library of the University. The President thinks the best solution of this difficulty is to plan not to keep in the central building a stock of more than about a million volumes; and have other places of storage for the least useful volumes. If the idea of a limited library could once be accepted, the classification of books on the shelves could be made reasonably permanent, and many sources of waste or fruitless expense dried...
...weights and endeavoring to turn the sharp corners of the indoor track, with a basketball team that requires the entire floor space for practice, with a gymnastic team and many other groups of men seeking exercise at the same time and in the same place, one may gain an idea of what it means at Harvard for many students at one time to undertake systematic exercise...