Word: belief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chapel last evening Dr. Edward Everett Hale preached the second of his series of sermons on the "Formation of Character." His subject was the connection between being and doing, between our religious belief and our active work in life. The last quarter of a century has witnessed a revolution in the methods of church work. The churches have begun to turn their attention to the needs of the times, education, foreign missions, prison reforms and temperance instead of wrangling over creeds and opinions. So we, too, must apply our beliefs to the affairs of life, for only by so doing...
...ticket, in purchasing, agrees not to give, sell, or part with any Class-Day ticket whatsoever to any objectionable person. (This includes tradesmen, goodies, janitors and servants.)" Let us hope the committee have no relatives or friends who are "tradesmen." Others are not so fortunate. There is a vulgar belief that in this country "a man's a man for a' that." The fathers of several of the faculty and many students are tradesmen. According to the committee, such persons must not be admitted to the yard. It is a pity if students can only judge fitness by vocation. Such...
...question was thrown open to the house, a large number availed themselves of the opportunity. The following gentlemen spoke in favor of the affirmative: A. Burr, '89; F. B. Williams, '88; C. Hunneman, '89; A. J. Wells, L. S.; S. C. Lawrence, '90. The following addressed the meeting in belief of the negative: H. A. Davis, '91; C. P. Blaney, '91; C. Warden, '89; W. Naumburg, '89; A. D. Hill, '91; A. E. Healey, '91; A. E. Beckwith, Sp.; W. Williams, L. S. The votes were as below: On the merits of the question, affirmative, 14, negative...
...very large congregation assembled in the chapel last evening to hear Dr. Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn. The subject of the discourse was "The Foundations of Christian Belief." It was a most eloquent sermon, and those students who did not hear it certainly lost a great opportunity. Dr. Abbott described the present age as one of great questionings; but he said that he was glad to find it so, because an age of doubt is an age of advancement. More intelligent bases of belief are now demanded and old allegiances are being cast away. We cannot, however, prove spiritual truths...
...head of phantasms of the living are included visions of dying people. It has been supposed that all such visions can be accounted for by the theory that the spirit of the living person leaves its body and appears to others at a distance. This theory is difficult of belief, because in all recorded cases the ghost appears clothed, and it can hardly be conceived that an old hat has a spirit which can leave the hat and appear at a distance. An effort has been made to explain the apparitions by "telepathy," which may be defined as the ability...