Word: notion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...howls recently set up in the vicinity of Langdell Hall to contest the invasion of six squash courts in the new Hemenway gymnasium by the varsity team, arise from the false notion that the new courts were built expressly for the convenience of the Law School, or if not, that they should have been. The law students do not seem to realize that for years the varsity squash team has been pursuing its way around courts that have varied more than two feet in dimension, and their need for the standard courts at Hemenway outweighs the burden on law students...
...most interesting of all the drawings is "The Bathers" by Picasso. Whenever Picasso's name is mentioned it is immediately associated with Cubism, and the common notion about Cubists is that they work in their peculiar manner because they are unable to do otherwise. In this drawing, however, there is not a trace of Cubism. Quite to the contrary, it shows a draftsman who, in technical skill, is almost equal to the great artists of the Italian Renaissance. Picasso's use of line has form and solidarity which can hardly be excelled, and his handling of many different bodily positions...
...20th century, Miss Marie Corelli, with the financial support of Edward Morris, Chicago millionaire, purchased the House and completely restored it to its 16th century aspect. Miss Corelli was convinced that the structure should belong to the University; she wrote to Morris, "You may call it a romantic notion perhaps, but I should like to think that the house of John Harvard's mother was a link with John Harvard's university, and a sign of friendship between the two nations...
...recent years Oxford Groupers have concluded that '"God-control" could, and should, change not only individuals but nations and the world. One instance of this belief which gives pause to many an anti-Fascist is the Buchmanite notion that dictators are fine fellows who simply need a little Buchmanite guidance to become good Buchmanites-and incidentally order their obedient millions to do likewise. Last week in London, world headquarters of the Group, and in Switzerland, where Buchmanites have held many an international gathering, Dr. Buchman's current strategy bore newsworthy results...
...were optimists who believed in progress, creature comforts, civilization. Such Protestants looked down their noses when Pope Pius IX, speaking for the Roman Catholic Church, denied that it was the duty of Catholicism to come to terms with political or religious liberalism. Today, progress is not so popular a notion, and liberalism has few friends among European religious thinkers...