Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...idea underlying the project is that the engineer must combine ideas and action, and must, in order to meet people of all classes successfully, have a knowledge and appreciation of the interests which are common to people who are educated. The art of expressing oneself freely, which is one of the objects of this course, is necessary for the engineer, since modern engineering requires him to appear before commissions, boards, and public bodies to present his material in non-technical form, and in a limited time. But in addition to the practical advantage of the training...
...play feminine parts in dramatic performances for two successive years. It was feared they would grow effeminate! This is over-estimating the influence or importance of an institution which is not so over-estimated by the participators in it. The college debater is supposed to carry away the firm idea that the methods of point-debating are the methods of public life; he is supposed to assume that his proof by statistics and juggling with masses of facts forms the basis for all conviction. Far from it. He knows and everyone knows who hears him that he is taking part...
...speech before the members of the Regiment yesterday afternoon, Captain Cordier presented a "rough idea of what is proposed." Unfortunately, he can only devote the time which is not occupied by his office hours, to the Regiment, but he has devised a plan whereby sufficient instruction may be given...
...college athlete is also apt to meet with considerable objection. There seems to be two reasons for this. One is that it will simply mean that some of the best ball players will try to play despite the rule and this will result in deceit. The other is the idea maintained by many that it is unfair to the good ball player to deprive him of the right to play in the summer for his board and expenses, if another athlete is allowed to earn money in other forms of employment which are offered him solely because...
...public, or a portion of it, finds it hard to rid itself of an idea once firmly imbedded. In spite of a rain of facts to the contrary, some persons still believe that our endowed universities are out of the reach of any but men of wealth. The writer of a letter to the Transcript, and the author of a tirade against the University, called "The Educational Octopus," makes the accusation that the "intellectuals of Harvard mistakenly believe that the son of the laboring man should not be allowed to aspire to equality, professionally or otherwise, with the young...