Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Advocate's poets have not ventured far from the stock subjects of the magazine versifiers--"New Year," "Beyond the Ranges," "Snow." Yet Mr. Jopling has produced a spirited reanimation of an old idea, and Mr. Clark has been fairly successful in his departure from formal metre...
...some established firm but there is much discussion as to whether the large or small firm is the more desirable. The ideal combination seems to be the large free which gives its assistants responsibility and variety of work. Ordinarily a man should not go into an office with the idea of remaining there permanently unless he is reasonably sure of being taken into the firm
...CRIMSON while sympathizing as individuals with the editors of the Cornell Widow, who were dismissed from their university for some editorial or pictorial indiscretions in connection with a recent issue of that publication, cannot but approve the general idea of he Faculty's censoring that class of college magazine. College comic papers must be "cabined, cribbed, confined"; they must be bridled and bitted; they must be curbed, carped (obs.) and castigated; otherwise they tend to bubble over. The CRIMSON approves the Cornell policy heartily and looks with glee to the day when it will have a local application...
...labor involved in keeping track of the 700 or 800 men, graduates and non-graduates who constitute the rock over whom the modern class secretary serves as the shepherd, is very great. It usually happens that when Seniors elect their secretary they have little idea of his duties, or of the qualifications of a the man they select. Sometimes, the class secretaryship seems to be given as a consolation prize to a candidate who failed to get a marshalship. Occasionally, a popular athlete finds himself landed in a position which he accepts as a token of the good will...
...help in correcting the impression which so many have had of the Diplomatic and Consular Services, we should like to add, regarding the latter, that the popular idea that it can be entered only examination is false. A college graduate can go directly not the clerical staff of the Service without preliminary examinations and loan work from there to the official staff. The Government, moreover, is very desirous of getting more college men into this department, which makes it even worth while for those who have ever considered its possibilities to learn, its details by inquiry at the Employment Office...