Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent statement to the Yale News, E. D. Brandegee '81, Regent of the University, favors strongly the idea of a Junior dance this winter, provided it coincides with "the spirit of the times" and provided that there is no undue extravangce. Dean McLenahan of Princeton, in a similar statement, has expressed much the same sentiments, saying that a dance has been held at Princeton already, and that it was considered successful...
...Cambridge campaign was planned last Monday morning, when Mayor Rockwood called a meeting of the city's representative citizens and outlined his idea. Mrs. W. H. Dunbar of 64 Highland street was appointed chairman of the committee, and she has been in charge since that time. Prominent men and women have been appointed to conduct a canvass of each of the eight wards, and General Bancroft is acting as chairman of the canvassing committees...
...case of a reduction in the age limit, colleges would probably suffer most of all. The student body would be composed largely of the unfit. We dislike the idea of such a contingency, for we feel that colleges are of vital importance to a country, especially in time of war. Here are developed many of those who will become national leaders, as well as military officers. But as Professor Johnston points out, the present time demands drastic action. If the Government needs men nineteen years of age, the colleges must make an additional sacrifice...
...normal student the idea of drilling at 7.30 is not alluring; he does it because it is the only possible time he can spare and because he wants to do something to prepare himelf for future service. Yet yesterday and the day before showed that to drill without over-coats when the thermometer refuses to register is not too instructive and extremely uncomfortable. It is difficult to drill when all feelings except those of distinct pain have left the fingers...
...happens, "A Cure For Curables" isn't a mastodonic success. It has a good idea, but as soon as it germinates, Hodge steps in sight for the first time and everybody knows the solution. In bringing about a happy fourth act, he foils three members of the caste, restores ten of them to health, regenerates one and marries one--all in the same evening. And if self-assurance was sand, Hodge would be the Sahara desert...