Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent graduates are gloomy about the last five years of Harvard football, they may be able to form some idea of the mental atmosphere existing after the 1907 game. At that time Yale had won six straight games, in none of which had Harvard scored a single point. Harvard had in fact won but four games in the previous 28 years of play, although there had been three tie games...
...writer has never seen in print the true story of how Haughton came baok to coach, and even now it should be of interest to many. The man who was the originator of the idea is G. R. Fearing Jr. '93. During the winter of 1907-1908 he spoke of it to several men among others the writer, and said that he wished it could be brought about that Haughton and Burr could meet. The writer arranged a dinner in Boston at which were present Heman M. Burr '77, father of "Hooks" Burr H. C. Leeds '77, Fearing. Haughton, Burr...
...functions of the old advisory boards are now in the hands of the proctors. The changes made by the Student Advisory Committee last spring have proved completely efficacious; it is to be hoped that the plans for the guidance of the class of 1932 will continue to advance an idea whose most substantial progress has been made within the year...
...Everywhere, except in the moral realm, people know that they cannot successfully let themselves go or do as they please." The idea that it is the law of life to let an instinct like the sex instinct go was scoffed at by Mr. Fosdick. "Take the instinct of pugnacity," he said, "which is very deep in us. Well go out from this house now, get nearly run over by a car loose your temper, beat up the driver, batter in his head. How will you explain yourself to the judge tomorrow morning? Will you say, 'Your Honor...
...released. Certainly the privilege of mocking the mighty was not abused if the gleeful reports in the Sunday papers did the affair justice. The reading of them makes two impressions; one, that the jesting was horribly flat, the other, that this happy family is really responsible for the somnolent idea of the average voter, that what is, governmentally, is right. It is a fatuous patriotism that is dear to the demagogue and synonymous with stagnation...