Word: notions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...relative amount of time spent in the college on different studies. Statistics of this kind cannot be exact. They are based on the number of men taking respective courses, either elected or prescribed, and on the estimate held by college authorities of these courses. They give, however, a fair notion of the tendencies developed; and from 1825, the date of the first report issued, show an uninterrupted progress from the ancient to the modern, and from realms of fact to realms of thought...
...idea of holding a mock nominating convention in Sanders Theatre on Friday is certainly taking. Besides being entertaining in itself, it will give a very fair notion of what the national convention is like. The mock convention is one of those things which will be a great success if the men will take of it in the right spirit and determination to carry it off well. We understand that each man is to sit with his own state as in the regular convention, and that presidential nominations will be made for all parties. With the large portion of the college...
...notion of Unconscious Mental Life in the light of the recent psychological inquiry...
...traditional notion of personal identity proved erroneous by the recent discoveries concerning the trance state and double consciousness? (Consult Pierre Janet, L'Antomatisme psychologique; James: "The Hidden Self" in Scribner's Magazine...
...young emperor, conscious that he was the fount of all wisdom, began at once to assert his superior knowledge over that of his various ministers: and it mattered not that a minister happened to be master of his own specialty. Emperor Wilhelm's notion of monarchy is that all whom the monarch condescends to notice are thereby greatly honored and should in return be entirely submissive to the monarch's bidding. Thus did Emperor Wilhelm turn out Minister Gosler. So suddenly does the emperor indulge his whims that the Berliners call him Der Ploetzliche...