Word: notions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...facts of the case are well known; that Exeter has been in the past almost entirely a preparatory school for Harvard, but within the past few years an increasing number of men have gone to Yale. This may be due to our nonsuccess in athletics, to a false notion of Harvard methods, or to the energetic efforts of the Exeter Club at Yale. However desirable such a club at Harvard might have been in the past, it now an absolute necessity. That it can do good work and exert strong influence, no one can deny. There are at present ninety...
From the poems of Homer we get a very clear notion of Homeric civilization. It differed from that of the later Greek life; it was an age of transformation, where the noblest tendencies were strangely crossed by the coarsest ones. He has depicted this life so clearly by telling his story in the words and actions of his characters, keeping himself in the back ground. The language and the thought harmonize beautifully, the language showing an astonishing adaptability of the varying phases of the thought...
...bomb immediately, and the connon is destroyed. But by the use of compressed air in a long tube, thus imparting the velocity gradually, a 1000-pound bomb can be fired two miles without danger to the cannoneer, but with most disastrous effects on the object aimed at. The common notion that force is needed to maintain motion is erroneous; force is only needed to overcome resistance. Without opposition motion would continue forever after being once started. The planets continue to move only because no resistance is offered, otherwise they would have become stationary long ago. In connection with the effect...
...venture to suggest that B or C written at the end of a theme would tell one a good deal more than most of the criticisms which one now finds there. If his themes were marked one would have a definite notion of the value of his work-a notion which he certainly cannot get from "This shows care" or "Literary promise." Of course there are drawbacks to my plan, but I offer it as an improvement, not as an ideal...
...know the magnificent vitality which this game builds up, or who saw, for instance, the splendid physique of those young athletes who stood in confronting lines last Saturday on the field at Harvard, the game of football stands for much more than this show of roughness. The popular notion of the game founded upon the sensational reports of the daily papers and the real game as it progresses before the eyes of the spectators are two different things. It would be amusing, if it were not interfering with the proper understanding of a vital subject, to read, within...