Word: notion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...boarders, however, all have pronounced hobbies. Klapproth, with the preconceived notion that he is visiting a sanitarium, naturally enough believes the residents in the pension to be mildly insane. There follow a series of uproariously funuy scenes between Klapproth and the "patients" Josephine Kruger, who is continually searching for material for a new novel: Fritz Bernhardy, an inveterate traveller: Eugen Rumpel, a young man with dramatic aspirations and a defect in his speech: Grober, an irascible old soldier: and Amalic Pfeiffer, who is constantly searching for a husband for her daughter...
...life. The exclusion of all graduate students, thus limiting the membership of the teams to the undergraduates of the College and Scientific School, would take away from the representative character of the teams, although it might tend to introduce more of the element of fun into the games. The notion that there is any great abuse to be corrected is hardly warranted by the exclusion of a few Law School men from participation in athletic sports. The graduate schools contribute only a small percentage of the members of teams, and it would be a very unusual thing to elect...
...institution. As soon as any college begins searching about for likely athletes, it is obtaining an unfair advantage unless the other colleges do the same thing. If all solicit likely athletes, the sports become practically a business, and boys in the preparatory schools acquire an entirely distorted notion of their importance in college. One of the greatest reforms which could be effected today, and one which would benefit sports most, would be an agreement among all colleges not to solicit in any way the promising members of school teams or of amateur associations of any kind. This is far more...
...Harvard men. This has been the authorized statement from the very start, and if it means anything less than this, a vast amount of beautiful talk has been worse than wasted. And if this is the fundamental object, this consideration should govern the annual dues, rather than any notion of what might be desirable in other respects. Economy is an absolute necessity in any general college enterprise. The self-supporting student who carries his own burden can bear only a light weight in addition. The dependent student, who casts the whole matter on paternal charity, can not make this...