Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...devastated sections of France through organized financing by American cities has recently been brought before the public. For example, New York and Boston could accumulate funds to rebuild Rheims, and the little towns and villages of France could be taken care of by some of our smaller cities. This idea merits serious consideration, both for its sentimental and its practical value...
...excuses for this state of affairs are easy to find. The foremost thought of every red-blooded man is to get into service and he accepts too readily the theory that as a result scholastic attainment is of small importance. Serious thought will refute such an idea. If a man does get into the army or navy the success with which he has pursue his studies here will be of splendid service to him in those fields. If he does not get into uniform, he must take his place as a leader in the era of reconstruction to follow. There...
...Department would do well to give favorable consideration to the suggestion of the Harvard CRIMSON that an all-college-officers' training camp be established this summer. The idea clearly contains merit. Hundreds of college men, now below the draft age, would welcome the opportunity to devote the long vacation to intensive preparation for military service of a kind still greatly needed. To students in those institutions which now have no R. O. T. C. the plan would be particularly attractive, because it would enable them to get a training which conditions at their own colleges force them to forego...
Governor McCall has been a hearty advocate of "Smileage" ever since the idea was taken over by the Government in an attempt to relieve the necessity for amusement at the camps and cantonments. He appointed a special council for the sole purpose of stimulating interest in "Smileage" throughout the State of Massachusetts, and he will take up the subject from the point of view of the civil government...
Long before Washington was dead his contemporaries had entitled him "The Father of His Country." Yet Washington had not originated the idea of revolution against England. Its decisive battle, Saratoga, had been planned and fought by other generals, while Washington won, scarcely a single victory in seven years' campaigning. Although present at the Convention, he had played no decisive part in the formation of the Constitution. In spite of this, Washington well deserves the affectionate title bestowed on him. He possessed an extraordinary power of leadership through the moral qualities of integrity and devotion, rather than through intellectual genius...