Word: belief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...used in training the mind of youth is given us in the study of the languages, the literature, and the works of art of classical antiquity." Speaking further on the subject, Prof. Hoffman says "There is accordingly no lack of practical experience, and the result is that the belief which had already been entertained has been strengthened. Ideality in academic study, unselfish devotion to science for its own sake, and that unshackled activity of thought which is at once the condition and the consequence of such devotion, retire more and more into the background as the classical groundwork...
...less and less importance as an independent town, and is gradually nearing the fulfillment of the manifest destiny of its geographical position, and is becoming a mere suburb and dependency of Boston. It seems probable that its founders in selecting a site for the university were influenced in the belief that in Cambridge, or New Town, they had hit upon a most excellent place of rural retirement; far enough removed from the temptations of the larger city of Boston for safety, and yet near enough for convenience. Alas, that the mutations of time should have deceived the hopes of these...
...currently reported that Charles Francis Adams Jr., has several times of late asserted very positively in conversation his belief that within two years the study of Greek, as a requirement for admission to Harvard college, will have been entirely done away with. How far Mr. Adams' statement is likely to be fulfilled it is of course impossible for one not connected with the government of the college to judge. The statement certainly deserves considerable weight from the fact that Mr. Adams is a prominent member of the Board of Overseers and by his recent address before the Phi Beta Kappa...
...this period. Every effort will be made by the superintendent and the directors for the accomplishment of this object, and it is hoped every effort will be made by the members. As one means of increasing the revenue of the society, the above resolution was passed. It is the belief of the superintendent and directors that under it a considerable increase in the membership may be made to take place...
...speaker at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences declared that it was his belief that a new species of the human race, by the propagation of deaf mutes of their own kind, is being developed...