Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three million odd blanks for the nation's employers and will soon be busy with the millions to follow for the American workers. Everywhere the tide is sweeping on, whether to end in failure or universal acceptance it is, perhaps, too early to say. Whatever the result, the idea has caught, and failure will not be attributable to lack of popular feeling or acceptance...
...view of these circumstances, University Hall must be congratulated on its stand in this matter. Whether the plan is adopted generally throughout the university, whether a compromise is effected or, indeed, even if the idea is postponed for a period of months, the fact remains that the corporation is awake to very present issues. Harvard has not forgotten that charity begins at home, nor has it failed to manage its own house while engrossed in matters of national import...
Although it might seem a presumption to point at a goal which both Oxford and Cambridge have attained only after centuries of development, yet the idea is not impossible if considered in the light of present day trends and the general progressive character of the University itself. Harvard could endue each house with certain characteristics and could develop them in a relatively short space of time. That such personalities would benefit not only the freshmen in making their selections but also the house plan in general, is undeniable. Seven colorful and distinctive houses could not help but reflect well...
...stripe painted down the middle of many highways that he follows it automatically, is thus likely to be drawn into intersectional crashes. The doctor suggested that there should be a signal to the eye which would warn the brain of an intersection ahead. Last week, Engineer Dorsey's idea of a good signal was amazing drivers at some dozen dangerous crossings in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley section...
...should be discarded as far as possible in favor of regular Harvard entrance examinations. These could be used to determine whether a student could do justice to the three-year program. Twenty-six schools already cooperate with the college in eliminating College Boards, and the extension of the idea is the next logical step toward that smoothing of the transition from school to college which President Conant's January Report called for. This would encourage good secondary school training, as would permission for Freshmen to take advanced courses...