Word: notion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...different function of giving in concise form reviews of courses. Many men who are on the whole regular in attending lectures are led to believe that seminars by outside coaches are essential. Apparently they are too lazy to prepare themselves thoroughly or else they are victims of the fantastic notion that by listening to the charmed words of the tutor and reproducing them as nearly exactly as possible on the examination paper they will get a good mark...
...cribbing is due to the puerile notion that the very presence of the proctor is an invitation to circumvent him, I doubt whether the honor system would result in any greater maturity of moral conceptions. To sign a statement at the end of an examination paper to the effect that he has not cheated should be infinitely more humiliating to a gentleman than to sit within view of a proctor, yet in some colleges, at least, the honor system encourages the view that such a signature is more binding than writing the name at the head of the paper...
President Eliot said that careful students of democratic institutions have maintained that democracy tends to make a people uniform. They have said that the fundamental notion of democracy is equal opportunity, which brings uniformity of character. But equal opportunity is useless in bringing about uniformity, unless it is aided by equal capacity for seizing opportunity, and since equal capacity is impossible on account of differences in learning and talent, there is no such thing as equal opportunity. In our own country, a great, free democracy for more than a century, we have given a chance for equal opportunity...
...events which led to the founding of the Christian Church, the idea of the cross, and of the immortality of the soul, are quite alien to that closed circle contemplated by the materialist philosopher and the more ornamental theory of pantheistic monism. Christianity is opposed to the notion that the whole course of things appears in inevitable sequence. While it does not assert man's entire independence, it does make him responsible for his actions and gives him the power to deny god if he will...
...before them, and to impress upon them the obligation of taking part in some one or other of these. At the Faculty reception in the Union this evening, President Lowell will address the Freshman class. From him more than any other man can they receive a broad and rounded notion of the meaning and purpose of undergraduate life. The class should be present as a whole to hear...