Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With both groups in mind and impressed with the idea that Harvard Square is in need of a new food dispensary, a certain Mr. Taxier will on March 28 cast bread and meat, and a few other ingredients upon the troubled waters of the Square and open...
...article in the "New York Evening Journal" first brought the idea of this feat of culinary composition to Mr. Taxier. In it the point was carefully made that as yet there was no proper eating place in Harvard Square. Not the man to let a golden opportunity melt away, Mr. Taxier leapt to the spot and founded the wayside oasis new rapidly nearing completion...
...provide for cases in which the idea could not be effectively operated, the "reading plan" has been made optional with the various Harvard University departments and may be suspended in the case of certain classes at the discretion of the administration. The placing of increased responsibility you the student is one of the chief features upon which European and American educational systems have hitherto differed. The Minnesota Daily accredits this particular plan with English derivation...
Colleges all over the country are watching the new experiment with interest. Minnesota doubts whether the idea would work "superimposed on an educational system such as ours which has previously been somewhat paternalistic." The Brown Daily Herald and The Cornell Sun edutorially refuse to predict the outcome of Harvard's plan but they are agreed upon its possibilities and hopeful for its success. There is apparently no reason why the precarious brittleness of experimental ice upon which Harvard is treading should not harden into a solider basis strong enough to support the infinite number of educational institutions which...
Sixty candidates entered the spring competition of the Club, trying out in all departments but acting. Short speeches were made by the heads of departments; in order to give the men an idea of what they will be expected...