Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...order at all times of the day and night. The best clubs in all the cities gave the members of the Musical Clubs privileges of their club houses for periods of from five to ten days and every where they were treated with the greatest cordiality and friendliness. An idea of the life during the thirteen days which the men spent together, may be had from the following detailed account of the trip...
...already started on the frame of the shell for this year's 'varsity crew. The lines of last year's boat will be reproduced but there will be several new features, the principal result or which will be to make the shell lighter. The first point where a new idea comes in is in the space between the gunwale and the "rising." This piece of wood, which is parallel with the gunwale, usually stops at the cockpit but in the new plan it is carried to the end of the boat. Then the gunwale is to be made five pounds...
...often the case, a man fresh from Harvard is unable to answer such questions, it is not only very discreditable to him, but it also hurts the name of the university. Such a display of ignorance in regard to questions of the college cannot but convey the idea that little interest is taken in them at all. More serious than this, however, is the case where the question takes the form of a reproof or a challenge. Then it is the place of every Harvard man to be able to stand up and defend the actions of his university against...
...lecturer then discussed the Protestant outgrowth from the Catholic Church. The Protestant idea was to get rid of any artificial mediator between man and God. Luther and others opposed the authority of the Pope as against this Protestant idea and started the revolutionary spirit by condemning the sale of "indulgences." The case became a perfectly clear one. The Catholics held that a third party must interfere for the salvation of the individual soul, while the Protestants would not submit to have their opinions meddled with; they wanted free expression of their own belief. The Bible was the authority...
Today the old struggle is repeating itself. The only thing Harvard University has to fear is the narrow idea of Catholicism, not the great liberal basis of the original institution...