Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestion is good, however, in its central idea, and the Glee Club can assure Harvard of a reasonable increase in the number of Yard Concerts next year. The Glee Club...
...support of his project, Mr. Hahn also said: "The vitality of the chain idea has been demonstrated in the success of great chains of stores in specialty lines. The attempt to weld department stores into efficient and economical chains probably will prove a much more difficult task than has been the case in specialty lines, but the opportunity is there and the problems which accompany it will be solved...
Using a rather old idea, that of two twins getting mixed up in a highly involved plot, the author has sustained the interest of the reader admirably through the greater part of the volume. This interest is one which is centered entirely on the unraveling of the mysterious situation into which the reader and the hero, Roderick Hazzard, are thrown together. Without the plot, the work would have no content whatever. All the characters are over idealized and show no real development or subtlety throughout the three hundred odd pages of rapidly moving action...
...beyond what the scattered high schools could provide; for the colleges were very restricted in membership and mainly intended for theological students. By offering many of the advantages of a college without its exclusiveness and by avoiding through its wider range the provincialism of the high schools, such an idea offered the solution and was destined to develop into the present array of schools and colleges in which caste lines have ceased to be a barrier...
...renewed interest in the Wessex genius. It treats Hardy as a writer of prose and as a poet. From these two considerations, his doctrine is defined as a philosophy that is melancholy, even morbid in its inability to lead to anything that is tangible, or that gives an idea of the purpose of life...