Word: belief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...another column we print a list of topics which will form the subjects of a series of lectures soon to be delivered under the auspices of the Massachusetts Tariff Reform League. The names of the lecturers warrant us in the belief that this course of lectures will be one of great interest, not only to the business men of Boston, for whom the course is especially designed, but also for all who are interested in the study of Political Economy. The lectures to be delivered by Professor Sumner, of Yale, and by Dr. Taussig, of our own political economy department...
...strikes are unconditionally condemned by them. But we should not forget that the social classes owe something to each other. Protection is the expression of national interest in the laborer. The condition of this class did not begin to improve until Protection became our policy, contrary to general belief. Farm laborers received at the most $5 per month, boys $1. The farmers could not pay more; they had no market for their produce because the artisans were in Europe. Butter was 8 cents a pound, and some women in Connecticut went insane when the price rose to 10 cents...
...student's right to vote, if he comes to college from out of town. Calling it his residence does not make it so. He may have no right to so regard it. Believing the place to be his home is not enough. There may be no foundation for the belief. Swearing that it is his home must not be regarded as sufficient, if the facts are averse...
...support the second premise, viz., that the objectionable features of the game can not be removed by any revision of the rules by the Intercollegiate Association. This last statement is almost a pure assumption on the Committee's part. The only arguments they offer in support of their belief is that the changes adopted last year did not take away all objectionable features of the game. The Committee must grant that these changes did take away or lessen some objectionable features; they must also grant, therefore, that further changes in the same direction would take away more objectionable features...
...much further than merely to deny the moral right of forcing men into chapel. We ascribe to this very cause much of that infidelity for which Harvard has become notorious. The impression is current in the outside world that it is equivalent to sacrificing a man's religious belief to send him to Cambridge; and it is with a bitter sense of humiliation that we confess this impression to be partially founded on fact. Not that there is any great amount of open infidelity here; not that a large proportion of men lose their faith. But that a freethinking tendency...