Word: idea
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Professor Greenough who first conceived the idea of an institution for the collegiate instruction of women in connection with the University, and he was one of the first directors of the Annex, which has since become Radcliffe College. His writings on classical subjects, however, have done most to make him known. The Allen and Greenough Latin Grammar has had a very wide use in schools. He has also edited editions of Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace and Livy, and was an active contributor to various periodicals and to the proceedings of many learned societies. His other works include an Analysis...
What men get in college life, which is of worth, is not wholly in lectures and recitations, but in the contact with educated men and seeing the ways of the world. Thus the old-time idea of a professor apart from the world and above it is outgrown; and such a man would not be the one who could direct consolidated work...
...materialism of the business world. Thus it is that we get religion here in our midst. But the forced religion of the past which formed a part of the College curriculum was incompatible with truth as the standard of Harvard. University life is the supreme privilege, to take the idea of Spencer, of contemplating the energy from which all things proceed...
...accordance with this idea the following rules have been drawn...
Saturday's game was too short to give much idea of the final make-up of the team. Most of the gains made were through Trinity's line, though Shaw and Vanderpoel both made long runs. The Yale men lined up as follows:--Gould, Weeks, l.e.; Goss, Hyatt, l.t.; Olcott., l.g.; Holt, Hamlin, c.; Glass, r.g.; Hogan, r.t.; Rafferty, Ferguson, r.e.; De Saulles, Morris, Rockwell, q.b.; Hart, Fox, Chadwick, Shaw, h.b.; Wilhelmi, Vanderpoel...