Word: belief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...HERALD begins the third year of its existence in the continued belief that a college daily is a necessary adjunct to a university of the size of Harvard, and that the college students are willing to support such a paper to the best of their ability. To the best of our knowledge we may state that no college daily at Harvard has as yet succeeded in clearing expenses at the end of any year's publication. From this fact we leave the college to draw its own inferences as to the kind and degree of support which it has given...
After months of speculation by the country at large, the board of overseers, contrary to popular belief, has decided not to confer the degree of LL. D. on the present governor. The question seems to be simply, whether the university should follow a somewhat questionable precedent and confer a degree upon one who was deemed unfit for it, or, breaking away from this precedent, not to give it this year, and in the future only to those who were deemed especially fitted to receive the degree. It is, of course, unpleasant to mark out in this way some particular...
...with speed that augurs well for them in the race at New London. Their diet has been more liberal than heretofore. In matters of drink they are limited to water, iced tea and milk. The stroke will be the same as that pulled last year. It is the common belief among the boating men here that the fast stroke is in every point better than the English stroke taught by Robert Cook. Consequently the stroke will be quick - about forty-five to the minute. They are now pulling about forty-one or forty-two in practice. It is expected that...
...last year. It is said that the test of the boat was not made last year. They will therefore row in the same kind of boat, and the men will row in pairs. There have been some minor changes in the rigging, but practically it remains the same. The belief was so general last year that the race was lost through the bad steering of the coxswain, and the feeling against him was so strong, that he embraced the first opportunity he got to leave college. This year D. B. Tucker, the man who ought to have been coxswain last...
...announcement that the faculty objected to the building of a fence about the new athletic grounds, and the recital of reasons which induced them to take such a position, have been the occasion of much indignation and complaint throughout the college. If the faculty were influenced largely by the belief that the fence would be objectionable to the majority of the students, the opinions thus far expressed must tend to shake their confidence in the soundness of the conclusion reached by them. We have yet to hear of any expression of opinion from the college which is favorable...