Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...different times during the winter between dormitory teams and teams made up of members of the club. R. W. Kelso '04, former coach of the University debating team, H. Epstein '13, and various members of the debating council will speak at the meeting and give the men a general idea of the work planned for the winter...
...believe Professor Ripley would make a good commissioner, and that Governor McCall would do well to renew the nomination with the new council soon to take office. Ripley has had varied experience in practical affairs as well as in academic life. He believes in the minimum wage idea, and we could hardly expect a board to do less than be sympathetic with the purposes for which it was founded. With one member representing the manufacturers and another labor, the occupant of the place for which the Governor nominated Professor Ripley virtually shapes the policy of the board and so should...
...idea of romance in war is closely associated with single combat and justly so. There is something splendid about two individuals facing one another; certainly much more than in hordes of men joining battle. There are surely many heroic encounters taking place in the infantry, but we cannot hear of these so easily. Aviation at present is a service where single combat must be the feature. Our peculiar interest in it may be the result of its infancy, for the new holds much charm for us. And yet trench fighting does not thrill us in the same way, in spite...
...idea of physical development for our men in Europe is indeed a worthy one and cannot be overdone. It is a common fallacy that the minute our soldiers reach France they settle down to a life of charging Germans, dodging shells, and eating Y. M. C. A. food. The truth is that the American soldier is off-duty more than on, and decent recreation is essential. Sending extra footballs for the athletic man is a much better Christmas present than a few pounds of chewing gum or similar trench luxuries. Such human gifts are always more appreciated than useless luxuries...
...trying to make fun of the Advocate. Franklin S. Owen's "Sunset's Cradle Song," with an idea, and a little art, is a lone curd in an ocean of whey...