Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guidance should aim to be human rather than scientific. It is a problem in helping young men find themselves, to be answered by sympathetic human contact rather than by statistical analysis. There can be no single method and no sure-five system. The committee is strongly opposed to any idea of routine measurement of capacity or pigeon-holing of personality by any chart system whatsoever. Intelligence tests should be taken as indicating perhaps the possession of capacity but never the lack of it. Records of grades and activities should only supplement opinions formed by personal contact...
...this opinion he was joined by the late great George Westinghouse. Both counselled against attempting to make and transmit Alternating Current, despite its comparative cheapness. Mr. Westinghouse had an alternative idea-Compressed Air, upon which he had been experimenting (e.g. his air-brake). The original plans of Cataract Construction Co. actually called for a plant at the Falls whence Mr. Westinghouse felt confident he could transmit compressed air to take the place of steam behind industrial pistons in Buffalo, 20 mi. away...
...faculty tables will occupy. Used as a permanent separation in the dining hall the "high table" might, as the CRIMSON has before pointed out, usurp a desirable contact between preceptor and student. But other use of the "high tables" could be made besides one that follows the Oxford-Cambridge idea of segregation of tutors and students. Occasional use of the "high table" as a gathering place of the House resident and non-resident tutors would serve to coordinate the older members of the unit. To consider these tables as the means to a weekly or Di-weekly meeting...
...Oregon '31, and state amateur champion was the originator of the plan to promote intercollegiate golf through the interest aroused by such an experiment as playing a golf match by telegraph. His idea is for Harvard to chose a course which corresponds as nearly as possible to the features of the Eugene. Oregon, Country Club. The Eugene Course measures 6425 yards long, is par 72, has very few bunkers, and has its second nine laid out through trees. By chance the Belmont Springs Course, where the Harvard team plays regularly is greatly similar to this, with the exception that...
...I.ast week Mr. Raskob announced his idea for a giant investment trust for small-capital men. Theory: Let a workman take, for example, $200 to the proposed trust. For $200 he would be allowed to buy $500 worth of stock, borrowing the other $300 from a bank or subsidiary company, with his stock as collateral. He would then repay the $300 at the rate of $25 a month. Thus might small-capital men, instead of spending on the installment plan for radios, motors, refrigerators, invest in installments in sound "rich-men's" securities...