Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thought of more hour examinations may appear distasteful to many students, but to such the idea of any study whatever is probably none too agreeable. Frequent hour examinations would necessitate an increase in the day-to-day work and put a premium on regularity. If each hour examination included questions on the work of a course from its beginning, as well as from the preceding test, the importance of the mid-year examinations in course lasting the entire year should be lessened. In any event the student should be in a much better position to do well on the semi...
With the lawyer, it is much the same as with the doctor. The true lawyer's idea of his profession does not consist in the ordinary routine expressed by crime, retribution and a fee, but in abolishing the conditions which lead to sin. The effectiveness of this method for preventing crime itself is illustrated by the improvement obtained among the Labrador fishermen, and by the present result of prohibition in the state of Maine. Although the liquor dealers have done their best to make the prohibition law ineffective in that state, yet, since its introduction, the amount of crime...
...following statistics give a general comparison of the denominations represented in the Freshman class of this year. Although only 494 members of the class signed the Phillips Brooks House cards, a fair idea of how the class is represented can be obtained from the figures given below...
...Congregational church, but now effort must be made to identify it with the learning if Harvard University, the alliance to be academic and not ecclesiastical. He said that for this reason the Faculty should be composed of scholars and not sectarian ministers. He pointed out that the new idea of the teaching of theology is to teach it as an exact science. Although it is not an exact science, it should be so judged and should not be bound down by conformity to church creeds...
...year no previous records available. It is not surprising that more men should choose Economics as their special field, in view of the close connection which the information and training obtained bears upon business activity which so many men will enter after college. The figures give a very fair idea of the relative interest that the present undergraduate body has in the various opportunities of study at Harvard...