Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...supposed to have read. In many cases, too, the examinations are such that this sort of information will enable one to obtain a good mark. Thus it is not a definite and personal knowledge and appreciation of literature which is the rule, but a vague and second-hand idea of its nature...
...Twllight Mourner," on rural evening and the whip-poor-will; Mr. R. S. Mitchell's "Threnody," a fresh impression of love in Aegean landscapes; and Mr. E. Whittlesey's "Along the Wall," vague but rather pretty. Mr. R. G. Hillyer's "The Voice to Respond" begins with a large idea, which becomes smaller as it becomes too subjective. His lines have a strikingly Swinburnian swing. Mr. R. Littell's "Poet Telegraphs" is so vague as to be positively obscure...
...class of 1873 has voted to postpone its annual luncheon and dinner at this year's Commencement and turn over to the American Ambulance Service at Paris the money that would otherwise be used to defray the expenses of the two gatherings. The idea is extremely practical as well as highly commendable; and the action is typical of the hearty response of the University and its graduates towards alleviating the suffering on the European battlefields...
...University's critics frequently cry loudly that Harvard has forgotten its inclusive character and gone into one camp or another. Several years ago a book appeared by one John Corbin, in which one chapter bore the ominous title, "Harvard, a Germanized University." And periodically the idea crops out that by some metamorphosis our older universities have been transformed from "good old English" institutions to narrow "single-aim" laboratories for academic research. The fact is that Harvard, as President Lowell pointed out at a meeting of graduate students last year, owes something to the educational systems of all the leading nations...
...competition itself is a continuation of the idea which has taken the University Glee Club to New York for the past two years. The same Dr. Davison who originated the first practical plan for an Intercollegiate Glee Club Meet has directed the formation of a group of volunteer singers in each Freshman dormitory, and has set in motion the system which will bring them together competitively on June 1. What the Meet has already begun to do for singing among colleges, the Jubilee may be expected to accomplish for singing at Harvard. Such competitions have a two-fold benefit: They...