Word: notion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard has been a pioneer in this field, and the Jefferson Laboratory, built in 1884, is the first building of its kind in America. It was here that the notion was first overthrown that "such things as turning lathes were not the sort of thing one should have in a university...
...first place, the results of the examination revealed in general a surprisingly healthy body of men. Very few serious ailments were discovered, and the majority of men examined were in unusually good physical condition. This would seem to refute the notion that college men are declining physically...
...closely related with one another that it is difficult for the professors not to overlap each other or else not to leave unnecessary gaps with the result that the mind of the first-year law man is hopelessly confused and he is apt to entertain the unhealthy notion that the law is a mysterious agglomeration of disjointed matter in separate compartments. These disadvantages will be overcome in so far as it is possible by bringing the School to that state in which every instructor is thoroughly acquainted with the instruction of all of his colleagues and with that knowledge will...
...that war in the future is inevitable. On the contrary, he should feel called upon to analyze the causes which lead to war and then play as active a part as possible for their prevention in the future. Wars arise today either because one nation holds to the fallacious notion that it can secure some positive gain by defeating some other power, or else because it believes such an opinion is held towards...
...addition to the talk by President Lowell, Dean Thayer of the Law School will speak on "Law as a Profession." A great many students have the hazy notion that they would like to practice law; here is the chance to hear an eminent man tell what the profession requires in training and ability and what attractions it offers as a life work...