Word: belief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...highest honors in mathematics. The financial exhibit is equally gratifying. The money contributed for the founding of the institution, which it was estimated would only provide for four years, is now thought to be sufficient to carry on the work two years longer, and there is good ground for belief that the institution will soon become self-supporting. The secretary's report also officially announces that the Harvard examinations for women in Cambridge have been changed from the Woman's Education Society in Boston to the Annex, the examinations in other cities being carried on as heretofore. Greek...
...they have seen only the outside of what the college has to show only the largeness and grandeur of the parietal resources of Harvard. Could they see what these buildings contain, they would certainly find much more to interest them than any outside view could give. A very common belief is that college men care little about their rooms, and caring little do little to make them pleasant and artistic. The belief is certainly false. The money and trouble spent by college men on their rooms is no small sum. Some spend thousands in this way, some hundreds, some fifties...
...need of the reserved books. We have no wish to be censorious, but it seems absolutely necessary to remind a certain few that they must have more regard for others in their library work; and so we call general attention to the fact, in the belief that, once their notice is directed to it, these persons will cease from this most annoying habit...
Altogether, the record of the club for its initial year is one of which its founders need by no means feel ashamed, and the prospects for the coming year warrant us in the belief that good work will be done, both individual and team, before the targets and at the traps. The sport is one in which many are interested, and we bespeak for the club the support of all our students. To night's meeting ought especially to be attended by eighty-eight, for a freshman director is to be chosen, an officer who ought to represent most thoroughly...
...growth of the society has been rapid, and the results attained thus far warrant us in the belief that this year's work will be most satisfactory to the gentlemen who have it in charge...