Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recommendations with regard to Junior Album and Senior Class elections, little need be said. The provision for eliminating such stigma as has formerly been attached to men chosen by petition, by placing their names in the same category with Student Council nominees, is an excellent idea, although it must inevitably whitewash the publicity-minded undergraduate politicos along with the more worthy men who have a higher conception of office-holding. Also, many minds should be set at ease by the suggestion that future nominations for the Student Council election be made by an enlarged committee with a majority...
...Nielson, president of Smith College, also sent the Cambridge committee a wire of endorsement, urging them that there is no more important task before the United States today "than that of creating here and now a fresh realization of the fundamental democratic idea and of the supreme necessity of preserving our intellectual freedom...
...popularity, and the "progressive" courses he gave evidently filled a need in a moribund department, out of touch with present realities. It is doubtful if his shoes will be filled and his work continued since the sun withered him in this soil and showed it was barren. A good idea and a good man are lost to Harvard...
...first intimation of a stiffer policy came when a new watchman, whose function it is to watch Hemenway Gymnasium, refused to wink at the students' time honored tendency to regard the 7 o'clock deadline for cocktail parties as a more rough idea of when festivities should be called...
...This idea is not new. There are hundreds of Fallen Oak Teachers' Colleges which sell Child Psychology and Fourth Grade Methods in wholesale quantities. What is new is Dean Holmes' emphasis on the necessity of correlating the science of education with knowledge of the liberal arts subject itself. The two must be integrated so that each individual teacher can apply his technical knowledge differently...