Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insure a well-drilled undergraduate personnel for the seats on the Inter-House Council and for the intensive organization of the teams in the individual Houses. Hitherto Director Samborski has had little or no real representative contact with the undergraduates of the Houses, a crying fault which the Council idea should completely cradicate...
...function of these articles is felt to be important, inasmuch as it is the only method at the present time by which the University receives any popular indication of how effectively its teaching staff is operating, the prime purpose of the Guide is to give the bewildered Freshman an idea of what undergraduates think of the work to which they are devoting their "four long years". The Guide is an expression of undergraduate opinion which is gathered at oral hearings and by questionnaires among the Freshmen, and its mistakes result not from editorial bias, but from the human fallibility...
...clairvoyant a political prophet. The reorganization probably will go through. But meanwhile it is significant that there are liberals left like Mr. Burlingham who are willing to get up and contest the proposal to do away with the independent judiciary, a proposal which after all is the most reactionary idea that has yet sprung from the fertile imagination of the President of the United States...
...Brand new was the most squirm-making act of all, a Hopi Indian snake dance. While portly Col. Tim McCoy explains that the idea is to placate the snakes because in them rest spirits who can return to the rain gods and intercede for a good corn crop, eight painted, breech-clouted Hopis trail around in a circle holding one or two snakes apiece, while a man in the centre waves a bunch of feathers to divert the serpents' attention. As a public precaution, the snakes' fangs have been removed or are kept folded back by little buckskin...
...Ball had been up to of late. Mr. Ball had been in Washington getting acquainted with RFC Chairman Jesse Holman Jones. He had been in Cleveland. He had been in Manhattan. But his secretary at Ball Bros. Co. on Muncie's Macedonia Avenue soon scotched the idea that Mr. Ball was selling his 90% equity in Midamerica Corp. That Mr. Ball had received propositions was certain. Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen ("The Great") Eaton for one had been trying to recruit a buying syndicate...