Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...says Harvard boys are her "favorites" wherever she goes, disapproves of mixed nudist colonies. "It is a healthy recreation, provided the sexes are not together". The new marriage courses at Vassar she praised and urged their institution at all colleges. "It's not a bad idea to teach young girls the beauties of their bodies...
...that the History 1 faculty has been brought face to face with the fact that the Dizzy Dean at the Freshman Smoker had nothing to do with deans of University Hall, it might repay inquiry to discover how any responsible person could get such an idea of the men who administer the daily life of the college. For a man holding the position of dean must combine the executive ability to keep the wheels of industry rolling, the personal charm to inspire the confidence of students and outsiders with whom he comes in contact, and the intellectual outlook...
...Simpson: "For Queen of England [King Edward had chosen], an itinerant, shopsoiled twice divorcee with two ex-husbands living. . . . She came too far below, she clashed too crudely, with the nation's idea and ideal, dream and myth of feminine royalty. . . . She would not do. The comedown from Queen Mary to Queen Wally was too steep...
Having, previously voted not to send anyone to abroad this year, Burwell's idea coupling the trip to Geneva to help promote international good will with the plan of seeing new foreign students heading for Cambridge was adopted by the Brooks House Council...
...Cardinals will be in town, the Committee conceived the idea of getting Frisch and his brilliant pitching star to appear. Dean, a hold-out from the St. Louis Club during much of the training season, has won two shutout victories in two starts since the regular season opened...