Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman class has planned an event which will doubtless become one of the traditional land-marks of the College course, along with the Junior Dance and the Senior Spread. The new function has been given the distinctive name of "Jubilee," and is unusual in idea as well. While it will centre around an interdormitory singing contest, it will contain more than a bare hint of social attraction. The competition, of course, will be "the thing." But in addition there will be a reception, a concert, a buffet supper, and a dance,--surely enough to attract even those who hitherto have...
Plans for the holding of a conference at Cornell University from June 15 to 30 for the intensive study of international relations and the training of students who hope to become leaders in the development of world organization have been completed by the World Peace Foundation. While the fundamental idea of the conference is that international conflicts are due to the absence of an enlightened public opinion as to the futility of war and the advantages of world organization, all points of view will be welcomed and complete freedom of discussion will prevail...
Though the primary object of the Children's Players' performances is to give children an idea of first class dramatic art, "The Moving House" is a play which can be enjoyed by everyone...
...friendly greetings between members of the faculty (from Presidents to Dons) and students of every nation and station, cannot help contrasting all that with the conditions extant at out Harvard Union --to say nothing of the thronged assemblies at the Forums which are next to the social centre idea, a main feature of the Oxford Union...
...present Senior class to vote against the system were that most members of the class will probably find it easier, when the time comes, to make a large cash contribution than to carry the insurance in their first few years out of College, and also, that the insurance idea contemplates an equal division of the burden, while on the twenty-fifth anniversary or at any time, some members of the class will be much abler and readier than others to make large subscriptions to the fund. Plans for such a subscription system are being arranged for the class...