Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inspirational idea that one is building bigger than perhaps he will ever know comes infrequently enough in the wee hours when, as the News says editorially, necessity "will not take 'no' for an answer but demands that that paper must come out in acceptable form every morning." Curiously, such inspiration is most needful, as the CRIMSON can bear witness from its own semi-centennial in 1923, when the newspaper is obliged to reverse conventional birthday procedure and treat its readers to a gargantuan supplement...
...Burnham scouted the idea of romance with the young man, said she does not intend to marry him or anyone else. She has wealth, will rear Vera in the name of eugenics. Mrs. Burnham's relatives and father, Dr. Max Mailhouse of New Haven, Conn., were reported to be "harmonious with the situation." Professor Ellsworth Huntington of Yale, geographer, whose hobby is eugenics, said: "From a purely scientific standpoint, it was the correct thing for her [Mrs. Burnham] to do, although there is some doubt that it was best from a social standpoint." The public, shocked at the thought...
...expansive, oratorical gestures with which he embellishes his sermons, he stated his opinion of the Pope's document at a meeting of the American Waldensian* Aid Society: "The encyclical recently compounded is a childish document springing from an obsolescent ecclesiasticism, a remote legacy of the imperial idea of ruling the Kingdom of Christ by the Imperialism of Caesar. ... I am a Protestant because of the Galilean Carpenter who was the best protestant of all. ... He dealt, not in creed and dogma, but in life and humanity. . . . Love will solve the problem of all the unnecessary debates and bickering hates...
...Harvard, which is in Massachusetts, someone has thought of a new idea. It must have been a student." So runs a despatch, announcing the introduction of a system that allows students to drop in at classes whenever and wherever they please. Thinking it over, our own Liberal Arts School might see something in the idea, even if it does come from Harvard. There are at Penn State several men to whom students would be no means loathe to listen, and it is not beyond reason that these professors will welcome them. Aside from visits by self-declared eminents...
...brief, the new idea of which Harvard is so proud, is to allow students to attend classes in which they are not registered. The only objection we can think of is from the Treasurer's office, but it is reasonable to assume that if a student takes the trouble to attend a course for which he does not pay, he will emerge sooner or later with enough knowledge to make up for the financial loss. There is, as some may hint, the difficulty that there are no courses here which a student would voluntarily attend. But that...