Word: idea
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Ruskin's central contentions in his theory of political economy are the theses that economic questions cannot be understood apart from ethical and social considerations; and that moral facts having immediate relation to human character are inextricably involved in all production of economic goods. The gist of his idea is in the words, "There is no wealth but life." That his social ideas have never been realized is due to the fact that they involve a reversion to social forms which can never again be permanently established...
...Bulletin which appears today prints in full President Eliot's address before the Newsboys' Union, delivered in Boston last Sunday evening. He set forth in a comprehensive way the qualities that tend most to make a successful life, and emphasized the idea that hard work is the greatest of all promoters of human happiness...
...clever plot is developed in "The End of Blackwell's Tiger," which deals with the carelessness of a revenue officer. The author of "In the Valley Woodlands," has introduced same very good word painting into his story which although only a page in length gives the reader some idea of the suffering that exists on a battle field. One story which is hardly appropriate is "The Baby Uncle...
...undergraduates, who agitated for reform a year ago, wished to keep graduates out of the Yard, but had not the slightest idea of keeping out any undergraduates. Even when the new rules regulating the assignment of Yard rooms were announced, on December 5th, no one supposed that an interpretation of the term "undergraduate," that would bar Seniors, at the same time first year men in a graduate school, from Yard rooms, would be made. At that time, the CRIMSON in its editorial upon the subject said, "there may be some question as to whether a Senior who is also...
...regulations imposes an unwarranted hardship upon one class of undergraduates who certainly are entitled to consideration. They will certainly be undergraduates in their Senior year. They are merely pursuing the course advocated by President Eliot, in doing their seven years work in six years. Having no idea that such a rule would be imposed upon them when it was too late to change from 1904 to 1903, they have remained in their own class. And now by a rule almost retroactive in its effect upon them, they are to be excluded from the Yard in what is naturally the most...