Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Practice for the Princeton hockey team began at St. Nicholas rink, New York City, last Wednesday, forty men reporting. A new idea will be followed out this season in the nature of carrying two complete sevens from Princeton to New York for the university drill, the money to come from the saving which will be made by the non-employment of the professional coach as in past years. Captain Kuhn figures that the change will more than produce the needed opposition for the seven in the practices --a fault which has existed in past years and which has existed...
...argument at all, since College courses should be planned with the training of the average man in mind. There is still a third argument silently voiced in the University's rule which allows only two elective Composition courses to count for a degree. It is based on the idea that Composition is a cinch, that it requires less work than ordinary courses and should, therefore, not be encouraged. In reply, we say that Composition is a cinch only when the instructors choose to make it so for their own ease. It is not hard to make Composition courses difficult, though...
...master Speaks," by "Fughet to ", the old but ever-to-be-repeated lessons of unselfish devotion to high artistic ideals, and of Stern self-criticism, as indispensable to the achievement of anything of enduring value, are worked up in an agreeably fanciful manner. But where did "Rodney" get his idea that in the age of Voltaire and the Encyclopaedists--men were "unsophisticated...
...name "Bowl" seems to be the only one which can be applied satisfactorily to this new structure. Mr. David Dagget, secretary of the committee, disposing of two other possibilities as follows: "The word 'amphitheatre' does not quite express the idea of the new structure, as Greek amphitheatres did not have seats below the level of the ground; the building is neither oval nor circular, but elliptical. The same objections will apply which has often been suggested. The arena in a Roman amphitheatre applied only to the area on which the shows were executed, and this was generally sanded; the name...
...which lies behind this rhapsody and forgives Mr. Jopling some melodramatic lines, content to find in him true appreciation of the great western desert and a gift of expression which sometimes reaches eloquence. There is nothing to praise, in Mr. Murdock's effusion on "The Game." It embodies an idea latent in the minds of many people, that poetry means making similes and the more the better. Mr. Sanger's poem on election which knows no form. It might go on forever, or it might be cut down by three stanzas without great damage; and any one stanza might follow...