Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...goods have started to flow to Asiatic Russia, an instrument through which Americans may come to have some grasp of the meaning and the soul of Russia. Such a gift is not only empire building by trade building--it is university building by empire building. It carries out the idea of the late Seth Lowe that our great American universities should stand primarily for the paramount expression of life in the particular section where each ahappens...
Among a very few classes of men the idea that politics does not offer a field for gentlemanly activity is still prevalent. However, undergraduates need not fear that a live interest in elections and political questions will be considered ungentlemanly by their friends in polite society. If they fail to understand now, they will soon find out that men on the outside world consider it "commeil faut" to discuss the policies of political parties. Many financiers, railroad magnates and money kings actually have strong political opinions and work earnestly for their respective parties. So the undergraduate need not feel that...
...Abraham Flexner, the distinguished educational expert, has attracted much attention by his attacks on our present educational system, and by his plans for instruction based largely on the training of sense rather than memory, as President Eliot expresses it. It is an interesting idea, already partly introduced in the public schools of Maryland. Dr. Flexner would divide the curriculum into four fields: science, industry, civics and aesthetics, proposing subjects and methods of immediate interest and practical value. Such a basis is surely sound. Every school boy has rebelled at "conjugating dead languages and reciting the imports of Uruguay...
...writer of the following communication protests against the inconsistency of declaring that Harvard promotes international tolerance when many of her graduates have given their lives for the cause of the Allies. The idea of holding a service to commemorate the deeds of these men is nevertheless compatible with the University's spirit of non-partisanship...
...report of the Social Service Committee for the season of 1915-16. The number of men engaged in the different branches of social service was 344, exclusive of those who were engaged in the work for less than three weeks' time. Reference to the following table will give some idea of the number of men engaged in the general branches of the work. Leaders of boys' clubs 195 Teachers 117 Probation officers 7 Associated Charities 5 Sunday schools...