Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public affairs. I shall certainly endeavor to be present at as many of the sessions as possible and you can count on me for the dinner Friday evening. I think the editors of the CRIMSON, the Yale News, and the Princetonian are to be congratulated both on conceiving the idea of this annual conference of Undergraduates and men of affairs and also in their success in providing such an interesting list of participants...
Since the Conference is distinctly an undergraduate affair, and since it must necessarily be limited in size to preserve the personal contact with its eminent guests,--the chief objective of the whole idea,--it is quite obvious that there will be no surplus room at the round tables for graduate students. Furthermore, contrary to the suggestions of graduate students, the discussion material of the Conference cannot be too technical if it is going to be of any use to the average undergraduate...
...Congress to pass a bill creating new Presidents for all those over fifty-five who will not retire. Indeed, it would seem that one poor President is more overburdened with the affairs of state than are nine justices. Must take the time to write my Senator of the idea...
...opening sessions of Heidelberg's festivities, those who attended were told that "The new science is entirely different from the idea of knowledge that found its value in an unchecked effort to reach the truth. The true freedom of science is to be an organ of a nation's living strength and of its historic fate and to present this in obedience to the law of truth...
Disillusioned thus, the first-night audience, which paid $10 per seat, soon was disillusioned about the picture's other an nounced qualifications. Despite the rec ommendations of Europe and Venice, The Robber Symphony is an incredibly inept execution of a brilliant idea...