Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand, have a different agenda. More often than not, they are secretly working on the unspoken but ill-concealed project of marrying us off. This project heightens during graduate school and the years following, but for many parents, junior year is when the hint of the notion first appears...
Stewart's focus on campus luxuries is unjustifiable, and there is not a modicum of merit in working for universal keycard access, van accessibility and cable TV when Harvard students already have nicer living conditions than 99 percent of the world ever will. We take issue with the notion that the supposed impotence of the council somehow justifies selfishness, shortsightedness and seclusion...
...that it was not so much a belief of ineffectuality that renders students apathetic but a devotion to the experience of a liberal education and the selfless pursuit of medical school admission or a Wall Street position that leads students to "prudently choose their education over activism." The notion that a secluded liberal education is valuable, or even possible, stuns us. The proposal that one is best educated by avoiding ideology, activism, and community activity is patently ridiculous. It is a presumptuous fallacy to suggest that "education" is only attainable in wood-paneled classrooms and textbooks...
Further, the notion that sitting in a Harvard dorm room studying 15 hours a day (as Cotton noted Thomas Jefferson allegedly did) prepares most students for anything other than a life of elitism and inaction is profoundly faulted. Where is the logic in supposing that people who contentedly spend four years doing nothing but classwork will suddenly rise from their undergraduate stupor and be ready (or qualified) to change the world? And where is the logic in supposing that it is possible to extricate oneself from society for long enough to graduate summa...
...notion that a liberal education can be gated into the Yard and boxed off into neat slots on a weekly planner is nonsensical. Just as anyone with an iota of intellectual curiosity does not "stop" educating herself after getting a degree, anyone who is a member of society (as we all are) does not "stop" participating in civic life for the purposes of academics. For our own education we should not, and in reality, we cannot: we are still participating in the economy every time we buy a textbook; we are still participating in democracy every time...