Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However worthy be the objective of making fraternities more of a source of benefit to the College than they have been in the past, it is feared that the importance of this series of lectures has been overemphasized. The idea of advantages for the socially elect, which has always prevailed and is contrary to the object of these lectures in included in the proposed plan. It is stated that, although there will be interfraternity hospitality in that members of all other fraternities are invited to attend the lectures at Alpha Chi Rho, a ruling of the Interfraternity Council forbids Freshmen...
...coal-scuttle. Said Her Majesty: "He insists on playing with coal, mud, paint, and everything else he ought not to play with." Changing the subject, she added, "Like my mother, I try to give as much time to charitable and hospital work as I can; but you have no idea how many other things a queen is called upon...
...Newark, N. J., Health Officer Charles V. Crafter mailed, to the parents of each & every newborn babe, a bib upon which was printed: 'I don't want to be sick. Do not kiss me." That was Officer Grafter's idea of one way to fight influenza...
...from Trovatore and Traviata but that pretty stage passed swiftly. A peasant streak came out. Moussorgsky loved Russia and its history. He loved the people and the soil whence they came. He would put them in his music and that music would be unfixed by petty patterns. So the idea grew and out of it came songs with strange, bright har monies and crazy, reckless rhythms. Came Boris with its savage splendor and Tchaikovsky wrote: &"As for Moussorgsky's music, it can go to the devil for all I care - it is a low, vile parody of the real...
...clearing she could see a cloud of his fellows in waterspout formation pointing like a finger down to the knoll in the swamp. She was betrayed. In an agony of fear and bafflement Hagar of the massive torso and puny wit, surrendered to her fate. But suddenly a beautiful idea dawned: "A nigger killin' heself by what de white folks calls committin' suicide."?"Everybody know nigger nebber kill heself."?"Why dat is?"?" 'Cause nigger ain't worry heself dat much...