Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Ford Motor Co. proposes to produce a gearshift car very soon. The basis for this rumor is the Ford inquiry made to equipment manufacturers about the prices of new, special machinery. That Ford Motor Co. plans to make a cheap six-cylinder car. This idea Ford officials have flatly denied. That motor car manufacturers this year will seek to buy up or at least control the tire manufacturers who supply original equipment. The logic of this is sound; the motor maker with a tire subsidiary cuts his costs. Ford Motor Co. is already making a great share...
...more at the upper end and gradually but inevitably transform itself into a professional school. He sees this process already going on at Johns Hopkins and at Stanford. He is alarmed for the passing from American life of what he aptly calls "our scholarly amateur". Unless the Junior College idea is checked the average college graduate in the future will "go directly from school to business, and the glorious peculiarity of American education will disappear...
With most of this one can agree fully but Professor Palmer leaves out of consideration one important point, the relationship of the over-population of the arts college with the Junior College. By calling attention to the abuses to which the Junior College idea is subject Professor Palmer has performed a highly valuable service. He has clarified the whole issue so far as the movement represented by Leland Stanford and Johns Hopkins is concerned. He has overlooked its high usefulness as a weapon for the protection of the arts college and the "scholarly amateur" from a mass of applicants...
Quite unexpectedly, President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth College offered a solution of the intercollegiate football "problem." Let only sophomores and juniors play on the varsity teams, he said; let each college have two varsity teams, so that each college could have "the big game" at home every year (idea first advanced by President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan); let the coaches be undergraduates, presumably seniors. President Hopkins did not believe that Dartmouth was in a position to bring about these extensive reforms singlehanded. He begged the Dartmouth Athletic Council, through which he addressed himself...
...that "bridge" was over emphasized as well as education, who believed that the Harvard of today is a fairly decent place despite the Liberal Club, the Lampoon, the final clubs, two or three others and the fact that Coolidge is still living away from home, who had a vague idea Boston was more a state of the mind than the mind of a state, who, in spite of his being averse to the traffic on Harvard Square met it half...