Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Moreover, last year, Harvard was in the lead--had conceived the idea of a regiment. It was a model to be admired and imitated by the lesser academic bodies and hence constantly to be improved and augmented. Its very formation before all other similar organizations assured its continuance as leader. Student enthusiasm so willed...
...internationalist idea lodged even in the brain of this man, who was in most respects the reverse of an internationalist...
...part to make the play a success. Yale will unquestionably use Le Gore in this way, and if the proper supporting combination can be arranged, he will be a dangerous offensive factor, since versatility is, so to speak, his middle name. Princeton will undoubtedly work over the idea; in fact, every team with a progressive coach will do something with the play if only because it is so difficult to diagnose and stop when it is well worked, and when not stopped is such a satisfactory longgainer...
...time for men who are doubtful of courses already chosen to visit other similar courses in the same group or subject, and find out whether a different course would prove more feasible. The general headings of courses in the elective pamphlet are often so brief they give no comprehensive idea regarding the work covered in the courses. For this reason it does no harm for men to visit a number of courses at their first meetings and run the chance of discovering a substitute course more to their liking. Especially does this refer to Seniors who choose their last courses...
...Harvard undergraduate body. For our nation--if any--should be capable of understanding Professor Russell's internationalism: it is we who are rightfully more and more assuming the attitude of champions of human rights as opposed to those of any one nation. Let us get rid of the old idea, which was so rapidly, passing over Europe before the war, except among the militarists, that political power exists merely to further the commercial and other selfish interests of one's own country. Professor Russell in adopting this view takes what might almost be called the American attitude, the attitude which...