Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...solution of the intercollegiate rowing problem is slowly but surely reaching an end as one college after another announces its policy for the spring work", states Lawrence Perry, in the New York Evening Post. "Although there have been many ways of expressing it, the underlying idea in all the larger universities is the same, to shape their plans in rowing with reference to present condition and not, as it were, to buck the inevitable...
...Boston on Saturday, President Lowell was the principal speaker on the question of changing the requirements for entrance to colleges in the state. He warned the administrators present against the dangers of lowering the standard of work required for entrance to college, but was in hearty accord with the idea of inaugurating any plan that would broaden the chance for more high school men to enter college...
...playing every minute of the game. There must not be an instant when a Crimson player slows up to take a rest, for that is always the time when the Yale bull-pup romps away with victory. If there is any man on the team who has an idea that he may become apathetic, let him inform the captain, for we want seven men on the ice who will play the best game they know how. The Arena today is to be a place for hockey and not for exhibitions of individual grace in skating. Let numerals be earned...
...regrettable that an ideal system of informal sports will not live at Cambridge. We are athletically spoiled by watching huge contests on whose outcome championships are at stake; we have been brought up on the idea of the importance of the Yale game and with it gone our whole system breaks down. The candidate for a team wants to get into the big game, and when the final contest turns into a struggle with some preparatory school or service organization, the whole cause for training seems to him wasted. From the observer's point of view, the informal system...
...give out approval to the order issued to the Four-Minute Men forbidding a campaign of hate--a methodical fanning of hatred against Germans and the German idea. This is America, where people form their own opinions and emotions. "We hate as one," said Lissauer's Hymn of Hate, and that was good German system, organization, propaganda. Here we work out our national salvation on a different plan. The individual rules. Tell him the facts and let him react as he wills. So runs the American idea...