Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would never do to impress the authorities with the notion that the spring recess is unwelcome. Anything would be welcome after Cambridge at this gusty indecisive season of the year; but the certainty that it is coming, that it will be like previous spring vacations, that it will not even have the opportunity to be at a different time is sure to emasculate its pleasing qualities. A constructive suggestion might not be out of place. Let Olympus keep its own counsel in the matter until a day or so before the bomb is to burst; then let the ukase...
...Young's "Brown of Harvard" which was performed last evening before a large body of spectators in the Princess Theatre, is chiefly interesting, perhaps, as an illustration of the female notion of what made university life is or ought...
...notion seems to be prevalent that the inspirational teacher must of necessity, be an interior scholar. It seems to students that just the opposite is true: that the highest scholarship is that which is riches in human values and that the presence of this additional human quality is that which distinguishes the scholar teacher from the pedant of the old Germanic school...
...notion seems to be prevalent that the inspirational teacher must of necessity, be an inferior scholar...
When the student from a public school comes to college he has to adjust himself to an entirely new mode of existence. One notion is uppermost in his mind. His business is to study. So he studies. In all probability, he does not even enter the competitions; and if he does, he lacks a certain savoir faire which is indispensable for success...