Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people try for the CRIMSON anyway? And having tried, why do they keep on trying once they learn the difficulties and pitfalls that await them? They try, in the first place, for any number of reasons. They may be brought out by a hangover of the preparatory school notion of being a Big Man around College. They may find that curricular work does not demand enough of their time to keep them busy. They may be bored. They may just wander in because they have found the habit of wandering. But once he has started, one of two things happens...
...confidence in them all laying down sooner or later. May we not have more of such? A series of such letters compiled and issued under one cover might easily carry to posterity the same lessons as our generation may get from Plutarch's Lives. I maintain that this notion is not so farfetched...
...flattery. Mr. Van Vechten, said Mr. Lyles, had only brought shame upon Negroes by taking an "esthetic" interest in their art. Mr. Van Vechten's real purpose, said Mr. Lyles, was to encourage and exaggerate Negro vulgarity and thus, subtly, pander to the "white supremacy" notion of Nordics. Let Florence Mills beware of Carl Van Vechten lest she, pride of "Race People," lose race caste...
...rhythms of the dying stars, the sleepy, dwindling music of the tides, the rigadoons that dinosaurs danced in a primeval sunset, the hungry chisels of rain and wind and river; these are the paraphernalia of geology, the most spectacular, if the most inexact of sciences. Most laymen have no notion of its reaches, beyond a superficial jargon, culled from newssheets, of meaninglessly enormous chunks of time and space. For such laymen as prefer facts to fantasies, Author Benson ably, if condescendingly, puts forward geological facts (e.g.-the air ten miles above the equator is colder than that ten miles above...
Professor Francis Arthur Powell Aveling, Reader in Psychology at the University of London, last week offered corrections to the popular notion about laughter, its causes and significance. "The really happy man," he said, "never laughs-or seldom-though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension-and the happy are not overstrung...