Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Chicago applicants are assured that they can by mail acquire "one half of the units requisite to the bachelor's degree." [It is scandalous] "that the prestige of the University of Chicago should be used to bamboozle well-meaning but untrained persons with the notion that they can thus receive a high school or a college education." To Dr. Flexner's attack came retorts: "Absurd!" Said Dr. James Chidester Egbert, director of the School
...certain quarters the notion is abroad that going to Johnny Hun's is as integral a part of Princeton's educational program as eating, sleeping, and going to the movies. It is not. Or if it is, the University's underclass curriculum is so unreasonably exacting that it must be changed quickly, and the sooner this truth is known the better. Obviously, this circumstance can never be recognized so long as hordes of men continue to limp through Freshman and Sophomore tests on the crutches of highly paid, eleventh-hour tutors. --Daily Princetonian...
...most cases. Yale and Tufts, and several of the women's colleges have experimented with a mental hygiene department, to which those men are referred who failed badly in examinations or for other reasons give cause for doubt as to their fitness for college. It seems a sensible notion. In any group of boys of college age there will naturally be a certain amount of emotional stress and strain--it is up to the College which is their parent for that interval to see what it can do to avoid the waste and failure which is incident thereto...
...ostensible reason for the convention is to discuss the various problems arising from the social and religious work of school Y. M. C. A.s; the chief object of the visit and the one which is most pertinent to the University is to acquaint the future college students with some notion of the nature of colleges and college life...
...average preparatory school man's impression of college is gained from the hysteria of football games and his own preconceived notion of the university as a larger edition of his school. Some of these men when they enter the freshman class, are either disillusioned by the prosaic and unromantic nature of the college routine, or else they find the freedom and opportunities for pleasure too tempting and lose their heads with the new freedom...