Word: belief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seldom attempts the well-known heavy article that is so prominent a feature of so many of our ambitious exchanges, and at the same time its light articles are at least readable. All in all, the journal is a credit to its editors, and does much to establish our belief in the fitness of women for journalistic pursuits. Taking all these points into consideration, an article in a late number of the Miscellany strikes us as being very important, shedding as it does, new light on a very old subject-the higher education of women. That there were objections...
...this point only that debate is to come, then we have an issue clearly defined, and we do not hesitate to attack such a position as the above as plainly untenable. We have not many hopes of convincing those members of the faculty who hold to such a belief after having soberly considered the arguments on both sides already brought forward, so utterly alien must be their point of view to that of the students. We on the one hand regard athletic sports as a regular system, developed after a show growth, in many ways faulty and capable of improvement...
...suppose that the employment of a professional coach by one college forces its rival to employ a professional. In rowing, the introduction of the "English" stroke was due to the discovery of it at Oxford, and all sort of experiments with professional coaches have failed to induce a belief that for college races any professional stroke can be found that is better...
There is likely soon to be a canvass made, to determine the condition of the college in the matter of religious belief. The plan may be to distribute among the students a short list of questions, to be answered (in confidence), and returned. The only other way is to call on each student in person. Either plan will involve much trouble to those who conduct the canvass, and a degree of annoyance to the individual students; but the interest of the results will be an ample recom pense. The last canvass was in 1881, under charge of the board...
...recent number of the Spirit of the Times contrasts the present attitude of students and of college faculties in regard to the present reform in athletics, again emphasizing in accordance with President Eliot's views the irreconcilable antithesis between the new system and the old. In the belief that this article represents with substantial accuracy the position of the authorities of Harvard College in the matter, and as such deserves the widest circulation, we present it in full below. We still hold that the antithesis spoken of is unduly emphasized and need not necessarily exist, in spite of the Spirit...