Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Below is printed a partial list of rewards and prizes offered to undergraduates. Each prize has, as a rule, a different set of conditions and requirements, but the incoming men may get an idea of their character from the following list...
College Spirit is a curse when it prompts a student to stoop to any dishonorable act in order to uphold the prestige of his school. To place money on a game because of a misconceived idea that loyalty to team and college demands it, is a fatal error common among college men. Gambling on the athletic contest, even when prompted by an overflow of zeal, is an evil just the same as the game of chance conducted in a dive...
Prominent among the student's ideas of the knowledge he acquires in the University is the one that the subject matter which he is being taught is mainly theoretical, and that little of it is practical. Especially is this idea apt to be held by one entering into the field of government and economics. Old beliefs as to the hesitancy in adopting various institutions of reform in governmental matters of the city, state, and nation are rapidly disappearing. New methods of city government, as taught to students in the University, are now given consideration by those in public authority...
...idea has been to separate the various departments of the Club so that each department will occupy a section of the structure and not interfere with the other departments. Simplicity and dignity of design has been the keynote throughout. The building will be of fireproof construction with three continuous flights of stairs within fireproofed walls...
...conception of the times that a university should serve the community not alone as an educational institution but by direct co-operation with the State. The importance of this newer conception of the university's position is most strikingly seen in those Western states where the so-called "Wisconsin idea" has been definitely applied. With the constant trend towards "state socialism," the necessity for such expert advice as a university alone can adequately supply grows ever greater. Concrete expression of this sentiment was given in the submission of a bill to Congress during the past winter for the establishment...