Word: notions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot began by saying that the enthusiastic assembly of such a number of Dartmouth alumni as a testimony to the great work of its president, was a prodigious reward. The common notion that our one ambition in life is the pursuit of money is a slander on the American people, for they are ever ready to give rewards to which money cannot be compared, rewards given in reverence and in gratitude. Many alumni of Dartmouth College, people never known by President Tucker, have respected him for a life of service into which money never entered. The long duration...
...argument in favor of an organized and salaried coaching system is thoroughly sound provided we admit his premise that football now ought to be a business. He explains what has been done, and outlines what remains to be done. If we are to succeed, we must give up all notion of a desultory scheme of amateur coaching. "We did not start out," he says, "with the expectation that after only two years of work (and it was hardly a year and a half) we should be able to compete in the market with our big rival house of 15 years...
After showing several pictures of various American animals and birds, taken by rather ingenious methods, he devoted the rest of his lecture to the grizzly and his habits. Contrary to the general notion the grizzly is timid and way, and all his movements are governed by extreme caution. He has taken many photographs of them, however, by means of the telephoto lens, and by the flashlight cartridge, which the bear operates himself by touching a wire...
There is a notion, only too common, that this work is intelligent and kindly care of persons who are chiefly helpless and hopeless. But that is an entire misunderstanding of its scope and possibilities. It is not merely care of needy persons. It looks largely to remedy and prevention. It means the use of scientific methods by the forces of charity, neighborliness, civic responsibility. It involves statesmanship in aim and method. Such conceptions of social work should appeal to young men and women of ability...
...Eastern Question," Mr. Ayres said, puzzles Western civilization because of our inability to appreciate the Eastern point of view. By glancing at the Burmese, we may get some notion of what the Eastern point of view is like...