Word: belief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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zine which shall be as much and as representative a part of Harvard as are her students, we realize the responsibility which rests upon our shoulders. We wish the magazine to stand or fall on its merits alone. In a sincere belief as to the necessity and usefulness of the Literary Monthly, we ask the cordial sympathy and hearty support of every student...
...been produced in America since Hawthorne;" "as a piece of literary workmanship, almost perfect." The reviewers have suffered only from dearth of words in which to express this enthusiasin, and the slight blame which they throw in seems to be rather a propitiatory offering to justice than an honest belief in the existence of faults. The fact is that the book has many faults. As a "piece of literary workmanship" it is far from perfect; the book abounds in inharmonious and loosely-constructed sentences; it contains positive errors so glaring as to be palpable to the merest survey...
...only mode in which it can be obtained, except in the classes of the Divinity School. Moreover, the service is held in "a well warmed chapel," and its duration is from 10 to 14 minutes. In view of the present state of circumstances, the committee give it as their belief that "the only alternative is, either to continue the present system with its generous allowance of absences, or to discontinue the service...
...drive him by law under defined penalties. And yet this is what the college authorities, who are steadily converting Harvard into a university in the large sense, insist on doing. The President and Fellows unluckily do not give their reasons, but the only creditable reasons must be either the belief that God is pleased with the presence in a chapel or church of unwilling, irritated, and irreverent worshippers, brought thither by the fear of temporal punishment, and does not mind the set against all religion which such a process is very apt to give young men; or the belief that...
...more money is spent yearly on the Yale crew than on the Harvard crew." Not having the figures at hand to prove this assertion, I was very careful to qualify it so that it should carry no more weight than is ordinarily accorded to an expression of opinion or belief. I rested my belief on conversations I have had at various times with those who are connected with the Yale crew, in which I received the impression that Yale spent more money on her crew than does Harvard. Thus far I have seen nothing to alter my impression on this...