Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small colleges, like small countries, are often more fertile of ideas than big ones. Last week came news of an unusual idea from small Hiram College (enrollment: 325) in Hiram, Ohio. The alma mater of Poet Vachel Lindsay and of U. S. President James A. Garfield, who was once (1857-63) its principal when it was named Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, Hiram started a summer school in 1931 on the "intensive study" plan. Instead of working on a number of things at once, Hiram students spent six weeks exclusively on one subject. Two years ago young President Kenneth Irving Brown...
Said Regent Callahan: "Yes, that's right. It was the Governor's idea...
...proprietors of KVOS, a 100-watt "coffeepot"* radio station in Bellingham, Wash., 70 miles from Seattle, had a fine idea. Why not start a "Newspaper of the Air" with three or more daily editions to keep KVOS fans up to the minute on world affairs? For advertising, there was the business of Bellingham merchants who would pay for interspersed announcements. For an editor, there was L. H. Darwin, who had once published a Bellingham paper. For news, there were the columns of the Bellingham Herald and the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer, all members of the far-flung Associated Press...
...cannot leave until you come out of your hole." This ruse brought the Boy out of his hole to pose briefly. From London, the horrified Government took telephonic steps to persuade the Boy not to be so Christmas-minded as to agree to issue daily bulletins about himself, an idea the Boy had broached, according to correspondents, so that they could all lgo to their wives & children...
...Many stock buyers seem never to have got over the idea that a stock is a bargain just because its price is low." declared Mr. Gay as he thumped his desk. "I can't stress too much the plain fact that just because a stock is selling at a low price is no guarantee it is cheap. A stock can be selling as low as $2 and still be the dearest security in the country. Make no mistake about it: the right-minded people in Wall Street don't want to see the public rushing into securities without...