Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nebulium. Certain unfamiliar lines in the spectra of far off nebulae have long been thought by astronomers to be made by a mysterious element which they called nebulium. This idea was exploded by Professor Ira Sprague Bowen, famed physicist colleague of Dr. Millikan. He found the lines are caused by the very familiar elements oxygen and nitrogen. They seemed unfamiliar because, in the rare atmosphere around the stars these elements have room to cut complicated capers, storing up energy for some time, then jumping actively and shooting off rays. In the dense atmosphere of the earth they are always being...
...value of Student Councils has taken the form of indifference. A steadily diminishing vote for Student Council members reached its low water mark this year when little more than a third of the Junior and Sophomore classes took the trouble to fill out their ballots. The popular idea of the Student Council is that of a body which meets occasionally, talks much and to little effect, and performs certain shadowy functions which no one could clearly define...
...Idea of God," Professor E.C. Moore, Harvard...
...Griggs's two-year men should ever come to the University, they too would doubtless receive their deserts and march out, diploma in hand, in a glow of fame. The demands upon teachers, on the other hand, do to a certain extent exist; but the idea of making one or more degrees the summum bonum, sine quanon, be-all and end-all of secondary school instructors is not to be laid at the door of the colleges. If an M.A. is requisite for teachers in, Boston high schools, it is because the administrators of those schools have so ordained...
...Aims and idea of the "Toc H'" will be the subject of a meeting to be held this evening at 8 o'clock under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House...