Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While his friends and backers began to wonder if their "Big Bill" might not have carried a splendid idea a bit too far, Mayor Thompson remained loudly confident. "I'm a guy," he says, "with the guts to speak right out. I've been attacked, lied about and ridiculed. I may not be smart but I'm smart enough to follow in the steps of the guys that made success." First and foremost on Mayor Thompson's list of successful '"guys" is George Washington...
...Queen who sat beside Alice and yelled, "Faster, faster!" sits beside most automobile drivers of to-day and her call is no less potent because it is a silent one. The theory, if not the practice, of the idea that travel in the street is the right of the pedestrian and the privilege of the motorist has often been iterated. In an entire nation of increasingly nimble broken field runners there will be found few more ardent supporters of this civic principle than those members of Harvard College who are daily obliged to cross Harvard Square...
...tutor, whom he sees at frequent intervals, and who acts as his guide in planning and following out his program of studies. In respect to this second point let me remark that in my three years at Yale no professor has made an attempt to give me an idea of the relationship of my various courses and of the end to which they tend. There are two reasons for this: (1) it is not part of our professors' job to give such advice, and (2) no one could do it with my courses anyway...
...hissing bombshell has been tessed into the camp of what he calls the "middle-aged moralists" by the declaration of the vice-chancellor of Oxford that the most agreeable quality of the modern student is his excellent deportment and beautiful manners. Disclaiming the idea that his views had been given a rosy bias by the environment of Oxford, he denied the implied strictures of the saying that "Oxford gave the world marmalade and a manner, Cambridge science and sausage...
...best solution appears to be the last named, that of the happy medium. Obviously the quickest method of accomplishing this aim is to copy the Oxford idea of Pass men and Honor men. But, excluding discussion as to whether or not this would ever be advisable with the American undergraduate, it may be pointed out that in those institutions which have tried this arrangement-- Columbia and Smith--the tendency has been toward a decrease in the number of Honor men, a contrary reaction from what might be expected. This is of course undesirable, especially when there are other means...