Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Suppression of any sort is a consequent loss of originality. Even though the obnoxious idea in question is momentarily crushed, and the man who advanced it is discharged, there is a doubly evil effect--the question is brought into greater prominence than before, and others professors find themselves afraid to step at all beyond the limits of complete conventionality. For fear of suppression they dare not carry on their work nor their investigations...
Accompanied by or replacing the customary examination, psychological tests have been given this year in a number of colleges all over the country. The idea of the tests is to assist the individual to select the branch of study for which he is host aired manfully...
...questions covered a wide range of subjects and studies, from an understanding of simple arithmetic to an idea of the classical arts. It was found that the highest average ranks as a class went to the A. B. men, while the special students averaged the lowest...
...score-board dates back to 1900, when Arthur Irwin, former scout of the New York American Baseball Club, and now with Rochester, wishing to lessen the difficulty which the spectators had in following the play with a fair idea of who was making the plays, conceived the plan. At that time forward passes were unheard of and mass plays with flying wedges were relied on for results. This form of play made the game a confused one to follow. And it was almost impossible for the stands to tell who was doing the work. Furthermore, regular linesmen were not then...
...Burgess expressed himself as satisfied with the early season games. "The Andover and Springfield games gave me an idea of the material I had and showed me what the players could do in a real game. The games we played on our trip were by far the hardest and the team played finely at a great disadvantage...