Word: belief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard. "The man who goes through Harvard erect will be apt to stand erect elsewhere. Harvard is either the best or the worst for any young man." This last is doubtful praise. We take it he is referring to the influence of Harvard on a man's religious belief. For the man who can stand the liberalizing influence of Harvard and remain unshaken in his faith, Harvard is the best; but for him who allows this influence to destroy his belief, Harvard is the worst. Altogether Mr. Cook's ideas are, to say the least, readable, if not profound...
There appears to be good grounds for belief that Prince Gortschakoff died of poison...
...papers of Harvard and Yale for the supposed part they have taken in the recent prolonged negotiations for a race between the two colleges. This charge we consider it a duty to ourselves and (if we are permitted) to our esteemed contemporaries, to deny. To the best of our belief far more, proportionately, has appeared in the public press in the way of announcement and more or less partisan comment on the proceedings than in any of the college papers. Indeed, it has been principally the outside press which, with perverted enterprise, has perpetually dragged the matter into publicity, both...
...regularly. From 1876 to 1882 students could easily obtain permission to do so at irregular intervals. Now no such permission is granted. The only reason given for this is that "the president likes to have the chapel filled up." This restriction, which forces girls of every shade of belief to spend their time ostensibly given them for personal religious culture in listening to expositions of the tenets of that form of religious opinion, "whose bulwarks are the Trinity on one side and hell on the other," is held by Vassar students to be their one great grievance in the matter...
...Boston Herald editorially expresses its belief that compulsory attendance at chapel is a relic of the Dark Ages. It says that "religion cannot be thrust down men's throats...