Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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wave of criticism? Its outstanding feature is that it does not center in any one big issue, but in a number of little ones, and is mainly a symptom of general irritation. Harvard men have got the notion,--perhaps it was the foot-ball season which put in into their heads that their University is losing ground, and not knowing the situation fully are a prey to exaggerated fears. They are worrying about all sorts of things that aren't so: the other day a loyal graduate complained to me about the need of changing the policy of a certain...
...agitated Yale man has written an article in the February "Forum" entitled "Big Men--or Cultured?" It seems that every undergraduate in--New Haven is possessed with the notion that he must "do something." The author of the article is afraid that Yale is consequently going to the bulldogs...
...crops out in the most unexpected places. When anybody offends you by seeming to affect an intellectual superiority, just look up his antecedents and if it turns out that he was once of our fellowship (even as a student in the Summer School) the whole thing is explained. This notion that all Harvard men run true to type has travelled...
...Washington Treaty was signed by the United States of America, France, Italy, Japan and Great Britain. Up to date, the British Government has not received from any of the other signatories of the treaty any protest or observation whatever tending to show that they have the slightest notion that Great Britain is not carrying out her side according to the letter and the spirit. I presume that all these governments cannot have sunk into a condition of coma, nor that they are all completely indifferent to the interests of the countries they govern, so that it was left...
...Bimini. In modern times science promises synthetic youth. But rejuvenation by the academic method seems the more popular way. Even Harvard has its "Old Dog" basking anew in the sunlight of knowledge and the shadow of an incognito. If retired bond salesmen and cotton merchants should take any wholesale notion to imitate these examples, the "Freshman Red Book" may come to look like an advertising handbook for Colgate's Shaving Cream...