Word: notion
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...been a very good citizen of the University," says Joan Hutchins, a former president of the Board of Overseers, speaking of Clark's performance as a dean. "He has changed the whole notion of the business school throughout the University. The business school is being seen as having interest in working with the other schools...
...House system was not without its problems. From the start, Lowell's tutorial program seemed to founder, prompting a Student Council report in 1959 that lamented a lack of interaction between students and faculty. Lowell's vision of the House as an academic locus gave way to his notion of the House as the center of social interaction. As all the students of the College settled in to live and play football together, it was entirely the social dimension that cut away at the elitism of class Lowell deplored. More memorably, in the eyes of Harvard students at least...
...wired campus, Georgi is battling to make the 70-year-old notion of "House community" digitally savvy. Telephone calls and snail mail no longer suffice to marshal Net generation undergraduates into the community. "I suppose that all of these House things used to be done with posters and sign-up lists in the dining hall, but I can't imagine running the House without e-mail and the House webpage," Georgi muses. "And I'm trying to train the administration that it is useful to send the House [electronic] files instead of piles of papers...
...never forget it," Russert said. "The door opened, there he was, dressed in white. I was there alone. As he approached me, my mind quickly turned away from Bryant Gumbel's career and NBC's ratings toward the notion of salvation. And you heard this tough, no nonsense, hard-hitting questioner from 'Meet the Press,' a trained attorney, begin my exchange, 'Bless me, Father...
...always inadvertent. "At a time when we're trying to promote a 'Star Wars' missile defense against rogue states, it always helps to have a few more potential threats out there," says Dowell. "Somebody may have a reason for encouraging looseness with this information." To be sure, advancing the notion that a state as unstable - and as prone to Islamic fundamentalist pressure - as Pakistan is developing an arsenal of nuclear warheads and a fleet of converted intermediate-range Chinese and North Korean missiles on which to carry them underscores the dangers cited by missile-defense advocates. It makes little difference...