Word: belief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...letter slandering Williams in a most ungenerous manner. Great indignation is felt here among faculty and students, and must everywhere be felt among the alumni and friends of the college against Mr. Chadbourne for this action. The cause for this sudden outburst of malice is unknown, but the general belief here is that he has been "most terribly left" in something, and that having tasted a generous supply of sour grapes, he is trying to sweeten the flavor by hurling slanders against us. His administration here was one of tyranny, justice at his hand being unknown, and the "pack...
...stock market in New York yesterday was feverish, opening strong, declining, and then advancing again. There was strong buying of stocks on the growing belief that there is to be a general advance in the future...
...Queen's College, Oxford: "After a dinner given to people indirectly connected with the college, the senior bursar delivers to each guest a needle furnished with a length of silk, with the injunction, 'Take this and be thrifty, and begin the new year with industry.' Contrary to a common belief, this is not the condition of a tenure, nor does any advantage accrue to the institution by its observance. There is nothing particular about the needles either. To be precise, they lock like 7s sharps, and the silk, either of crimson, blue or black, is only such silk...
...vacation there. It was one of those delightful little country places, where on the arrival of a stranger all local industries are for the time suspended until the entire community has informed itself to its utter satisfaction regarding the minutiae of said stranger's life, habits, religious belief, and matrimonial intentions. But they did n't get much out of me. I don't talk very much about myself. I'm not egotistical. I am fully convinced of this, for I've heard myself say it a great many times. But there was one topic which I was perfectly willing...
...exchange publications with several female colleges, of which Vassar ranks first. Their literary productions rival those of our first colleges. Their sprightly editorials, the delicacy of their wit and humor, and their freedom of thought, have a peculiar charm which confirms our belief that their manner of education better accords with the "eternal fitness of things." - Hamilton Literary Monthly...