Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time when many "candidates for the degree" are coming out of their last examinations saying. "Thank Heaven, I don't have to study any more", it seems somewhat of a question whence that spiritual force is coming. It will hardly come from the universities if we hold to the notion that education ends at Commencement--that from then on theoretical learning is to be replaced by practical learning. Those who enter the world with that attitude can offer little in refutation of Dr. Hung-Ming's criticism. They are indeed yet candidates for "The American Barbaroi...
France, by extending its invitation, discredits in part, at least, the notion that foreigners are universally of the opinion that so-called college activities in this country are hardly worth the extraordinary amount of time devoted to them by undergraduates. There will no doubt be a great deal of curiosity to hear what has been called "the best-trained organization of men's voices in America". Perhaps the presence of a club of amateurs, holding this honor and yet representing a single university, will demonstrate that not all our activities consist in the extravagances of college "life"; the Glee Club...
...method for combating the easy elective pick-a-pipe-course tendency of modern students is to require them to take enough work in any one subject so that they will really know something about it when they get through. Thereby he hopes to din into undergraduate minds the notion that they get an education by learning, not merely by acquiring so many credits; as the Harvard head puts it, "not only to offer dishes but to make the student eat out of them...
...said that the interested student will have intelligence enough to find out for himself what he must do by inquiring at the College office. Unfortunately the majority of Freshmen come to college with a distorted notion of college life so that they do not outgrow their prep school prejudices against education until well on in their college career. For this reason we believe it to be vitally important that the members of every incoming class have again and again explained to them the rules and requirements for obtaining recognition of scholastic attainment either in the form of prizes and debates...
...until forced upon him by European statesmen, and caused him to be generally intolerant of the legal point of view which Mr. Lansing represented by training and inheritance. This ignorance and disregard of the President's for the juristic side of the negotiations took a curious twist in his notion that a preliminary treaty or modus viviendi containing a skeleton of the League of Nations would not have to be ratified by the Senate...