Word: notions
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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...What's the price? $2.00, you say. Notion store down our way sell 'em cheaper than that...
...Freshmen this "system" has had the most disastrous effects. In the other departments each new instructor finds the traditional system as a skeleton for which the flesh and blood is supplied from both his experience and the spirit of the times. So that however original an instructor's notion about the Classics, for instance, may be, he has at least a foundation to stand upon. Not so in German. Here every new instructor has, or thinks he has, for a year or more to undo the work of his predecessor; for another year to try his own experiments...