Word: notion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard authorities had uppermost in mind when they made the new grant, and unquestionably it is one of the ends which the grant will serve. The change promotes emphasis upon the undergraduate's own desire to gain real values from his college career, with diminishing stress on the notion that he must be forcibly...
...consequently supported as such. We believe this attitude is false. Since sound bodily development is essential to the perfection of nobler qualities of mind and soul, athletics for all must become the new ideal. When this ideal is actually established, there will then be nothing extraordinary in the notion of an athletic endowment...
...notices a certain amount of pique in American press comment that Europe has got together without America's assistance and worked out some sort of an agreement. It does not fit in with the preconceived notion on the other side of the Atlantic of a hate-torn Europe, which could only be reconciled through the pious efforts of the United States...
...when the Prince has had the rest which he richly deserves ... he might strike a balance between dignified isolation and the 'hail-fellow-well-met attitude' by attaching himself to some public cause . . . [and] by the regular application of his energies put an end to any false notion that he desires to live a butterfly existence...
...What is the correct notion about...