Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...making due allowance for these things, it is quite possible for anyone to gain from the news a tolerably correct idea of the course of the war. For those who cannot give the time necessary for reading critically the full dispatches day by day, the weekly periodicals provide a means for keeping well informed. There is no excuse for contemporary ignorance of one of the most tremendous periods in the world's history...
...striking personality of one of the most interesting figures in the history of Japanese Buddhism. "The Aramaic Source of Acts 1-15," by Professor Charles Cutler Torrey, of Yale, will be the first volume of a series of Harvard Studies in Theology. The second will be "The Pauline Idea of Faith in its Relation to Jewish and Hellenistic Religion," by Professor William Henry Paine Hatch, of the General Theological Seminary of New York...
...study of special subjects which will be largely optional, so that recruits who have aptitude for or knowledge of special subjects, such as navigation, signaling, radio work, steam or electrical engineering, etc., may have an opportunity to specialize, the object being to give everybody a general idea of what Navy routine and the problems of naval defence means. And it is our desire to get as representative a body of men as possible, who, after the cruise, it is believed will become enthusiastic advocates of preparedness and who will spread amongst the people of the country as a whole...
...directors of the Boston Chamber of Commerce placed their approval on the Plattsburg idea during the past week when they voted to issue a letter urging employers to do all that they find practicable to encourage the enlistment of men in their employment in the camps, which, they say, deserve the earnest support of all who desire more adequate national defence...
...past few years the condition of the Harvard Union has been discussed publicly and privately at regular intervals. Finally, a special committee appointed by the Student Council has made a careful report on the practical utility and financial status of the Union, with the idea of arriving at a conclusive settlement of the problem...