Word: idea
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...conception of men as to their place in the world has been much changed by scientific developments in recent times. The old idea that the world and all its living tenants were suddenly created is is giving way to the conviction that men of every age are a part of a vast, orderly development of which none know the beginning...
...practice of having line men carry the ball. The tackles, especially Bloomer, have been very successful in line plunging. This tackles back formation, devised especially to overcome Harvard's defense at tackle, which is widely different from the tactics in use at Yale and Princeton, is the only new idea in Yale's style of play this fall. In general the policy this year has been to go back to the old Yale plan of mass plays on the line as practised in the early nineties...
...will slow in the two lectures are taken, in the main, from old engravings and wood cuts. Many of these pictures have been collected in the Harvard Library, but a considerable number have been imported by Professor Baker himself. It is the purpose of the lecturer to give an idea of London as it was in the year 1600. Professor Baker will read from some of Shakespere's plays in passages of which the scenes are laid in London...
When the statistics of the cost of living have been perfected we shall have the best idea of real wages, for these figures would give us the most trust-worthy and accurate record of the proportion in which commodities have been consumed. Engel and Giffen have both made valuable contributions to the statistics of the cost of living. An Italian statistical table, published in 1898, is interesting in showing the increase in the purchasing power of labor. The table which entends from 1871 to 1895 gives the number of hours of labor necessary to purchase 100 Kilograms of wheat...
...taken last winter at Mr. Lane's request, for the purpose of supplementing the diaries and records of college life, written by several of the professors and undergraduates. The collection which was formed is as nearly as possible a complete record of college views, and gives a very clear idea of the University as it appears to-day. It includes pictures of all the important college buildings, of the Yard, the professors' houses, interiors of students' rooms, and scenes on the athletic fields, in Cambridge and on the streets near the College...