Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spent in explaining concentration and distribution. In this week there would be four lectures, and at each lecture the head of one of the four departments would explain the courses in his department, of what particular value each course was, and what professors were giving them. There is another idea; namely, that there be a wide compaign of education in the high and preparatory schools in order that men should come to college not completely ignorant of the system. This could only be accomplished through the active co-operation of the schools themselves, but it is felt that the principals...
...idea of forming some sort of an organization to give University men an opportunity in the field of foreign re-construction came as a result of a lecture by Dr. R. M. Storey '08 in Phillips Brooks House on March 12. Dr. Storey, who had been the head of the Y. M. C. A. in Siberia in 1917-1918, spoke on the great opportunities which were offered to college men for reconstruction and a desire to take an active part in it. It is believed that many other men at college now would like to do foreign reconstruction work...
...story is of an English father and mother whose son has been killed at the front. All the mother's actions outwardly portray her loss, she is obsessed with the idea of mourning and each night gathers her family together believing that they can receive spiritual messages from the son. The father--George Arliss--however, goes about his business pretty much as before, and people think he does not feel his son's death; indeed his wife, remembering the lack of demonstrative affection between father and son, thinks her husband unable to receive messages from the dead...
...hard for us to understand how people can have found the English language serviceable from the days of Chaucer to our own without the new and now widely employed term "bolshevism." What does it mean? Answer: The result that will follow the success of the other fellow's idea...
...unusual privilege offered them in the comedy's first appearance on this side of the Atlantic. Henri Emile Lavedon is one of the greatest living French litterateurs, having been a member of the Academy since 1898, and at present an officer in the Legion of Honor. The title and idea of "Sire" was suggested to him when quite a young man upon a visit to the Orleans a Blois. As he waited for his friend in a beautiful reception room, an old, white-haired woman entered and greeted...