Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of the Lampoon there was a cartoon--intentionally ridiculous of course--which depicted the Main Reading Room of Widener Library as it would appear on January 3, 1928. Every seat was vacant and cobwebs adorned the walls. Just how humorous he really was, the artist doubtless had no idea--assuming that humor is an exaggerated perversion of the truth. January 3, 1928, came and Widener's halls were comfortably filled. There appeared to be on difference in routine from post-holiday attendance in other years. And yet a remarkable change had been and still is being effected...
...faculty is trying the experiment of suspending all classes and most of the lectures between the holidays and midyears. Except for laboratory work and conferences the student's time is his own. The use he makes of it presumably will be shown up by the exams. The idea is that education is too much time-tabled, and that young men ought to have some chance to seek wisdom instead of having it forever thrust upon them...
...illustrators present a sky crowded with man-made birds. A striking prophecy is contained in the engraving of 1846 on "Hyde Park as it will be." Although the automobiles which fill the entire scene are propelled by steam and resemble dwarfed locomotives rather than modern cars, the whole idea of the picture seems prophetic of the present era, some eighty years later...
...said he, "some one has introduced a bill, and has signed my name to it, which, if enacted into law, would allow the Secretary of the Navy to buy for every officer of the Navy, a Cadillac, a Packard, or a Rolls-Royce automobile. Everyone knows that such an idea is foreign to that which would be expressed by me. I do not know who did this. . . ." The House laughed. If ever the Navy had a harsh critic, he is James V. McClintic. It was voted to correct the record to show that Mr. McClintic was not responsible for some...
...Hearst admitted that he himself had not for an instant believed the Senators guilty. He said he had tried to show the Mexican documents to President Coolidge, who had refused to see them. After that, Mr. Hearst had published the documents, in provocatively deleted form, because that was his idea of good journalism and "patriotism." He said he had hoped to force a Congressional investigation. Mr. Hearst said his private holdings in Mexico were worth three or four million dollars. Since the Calles Government has tended toward a confiscatory policy on alien property, a motive for Mr. Hearst wanting...