Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they have tended to forget the major point that ultimately the result of college training depends upon the undergraduate. It is he who must make himself well-balanced, he who must determine his set of values, he who must become interested in studying, making friends, and joining activities. The idea of maladjustment can easily be distorted through overemphasis by doctors and deans, and despite their worries America is against losing its tradition of Emersonian self-reliance. It is absurd to think that the University should be morally responsible for the fate of every Freshman, for to nurse one thousand mothers...
...idea of five hundred new Doctors of Philosophy a year in this country is appalling" declared H. Mumford Jones, professor of English, before the Modern Language Conference in the Junior Common Room of Winthrop House last night...
...idea just come to me suddenly a couple days ago," stated Norman Hapgood '41 who in the presence of a cheering crowd of forty, accomplished the feat last night of going out of a room on the fourth floor of Thayer, walking down four flights, and up again balancing a broom on his chin, to win a bet of two and a half dollars...
...Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in France Götterddmmerung becomes Le Crepuscule des Dieux. In England and the U. S. opera is usually given in its original language. But from time to time British and U. S. producers have interested themselves in the idea of translated opera and have tried out performances, even entire seasons, of opera in English...
...LaFollettes," Professor Holcombe believes, "are trying to execute the plans of their father. He had an idea that the way for the third party was to split the electoral college and throw the election into the House of Representatives. Here old party lines would be smashed," and a new ralignmen of parties result. Holcombe then sighted the case of John Quincy Adams as an example...