Word: idea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Birthday Poems of the Century," is the title of a small volume of rather obscure verse by Ernest Green Dodge 1G. The book abounds in striking phrases, with now and then an original thought, but throughout the first poems runs a note of artificiality that often hides altogether the idea of the author. This perhaps is responsible for the bewilderment of the reader who looks seriously for a purpose in the verses, for something more than an outre style of phrase or rhythm. In "The Twilight of the Race," for example, the elaborate simplicity in many places approaches the absurd...
...University, of whatever associations and interests. Malcolm Donald '99, following President Eliot, spoke of the Union and its future from the standpoint of the undergraduate. C. Warren '89 read a poem to the Union, and J. H. Hyde '98 spoke of the early growth of the idea for the Club...
This fine idea running through them all struck me forcibly, namely, the great house of meeting built by many men for all men, where they together might sing praises to God and join with each other in friendly intercourse and mutual help...
...same idea presents itself to us of this century also in the shape of schools and colleges founded and carried on by the many for all-a true democracy...
...first idea which the Freshman should grasp is that of responsibility,-responsibility which he carries for the father and mother whom he has left. The Freshman frequently thinks that in being admitted to college he has climbed a huge mountain, and that there is nothing left for him except a picnic at the top. But every man in Harvard should help Harvard, should do something for Harvard; and his first duty in that direction is to do the work she lays out for him Hard and faithful study amounts simply to keeping trust with one's college...