Word: idea
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Under the caption "Visitation Day," the Alumni Bulletin for February third has the following to say about the idea of keeping graduates in touch with the activities of the University...
...Harvard Divinity School Alumni Association celebrated, on its own initiative, precisely such a day at Cambridge. A good old name for it was revived in 'Visitation Day.' Under this title it will be celebrated again this year, on February 17. If other branches of the University take up the idea, can they improve upon the name of 'Visitation...
...athletics, by the games. The plan of the Divinity School takes him back to the regular work of his college course. While it is improbable that a very large percentage of men would have time to attend "Old Grad" days, enough would undoubtedly do so to make the idea worth trying. It is up to some class to start...
...well developed brain. Under precent though not necessarily normal conditions, the Phi Beta Kapa trophy may serve as an incentive to increased effort in the field of studies, but it is not apt to reduce materially the importance many sub-Freshmen attach to athletic ability and achievements. The idea of such a trophy, is, nevertheless, a good one, and the competition for it and its final award will be watched with interest...
...young man is to make any real progress," a distinguished executive recently remarked, "he must either have a boss who is a brute, or be the slave to an idea which bosses him like a brute." Thus in a few words is stated the be-all and end-all of the disciplinarian's creed. It was something of this dogma which stood behind Dean Randall's remarkably outspoken address made recently to the alumni of Brown University. "Where Colleges Fail to Educate" was the subject which he chose, and it gave him a dozen opportunities to point the failures...