Word: belief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have heard nothing lately in regard to rowing Columbia, except a casual expression of the general belief that it is inexpedient for Harvard to continue rowing a hard four-mile race, which serves only to exhaust the men for the contest with Yale. Consequently it is likely that the race will be rowed as heretofore, and the chances of defeating Yale are to be lessened materially. Can nothing be done...
...auditing of accounts by this committee and the submitting of the result of its labors to the college is a benefit, the value of which we cannot over-estimate, for it cannot fail to destroy the belief, which has been current to some extent in an indisposition on the part of the athletic organizations to have anything to say to the students, except to get subscriptions...
...cannot agree with Mr. Balch in this matter, although we are as earnest as he is to advance the financial interests of the crew, for we have declared it our belief that mismanagement, if not extravagance. has been the rule for some time past. Last June the college was surprised to learn that the boat club was still in arrears when every one had been informed that the strenuous efforts made in the winter of '85-'86 had succeeded in wiping out the indebtedness which, something over $2000 in the fall of 1884, had been $1600 in October 1885. This...
...same time we see clearly that the falling off of a thousand dollars in the subscriptions since the year before, has tended to leave a larger amount unpaid now than there would otherwise have been. Deplorable as this is it seems to show a belief among the students that they ought not encourage the expenditure of so much money...
...results of his studies, some of which are as yet unpublished. He differs from many others in his classification, and in regarding sponges as individuals not as colonies. A sponge is essentially a globular sieve with the meshes prolonged into a labyrinth of minute tubes. Contrary to the general belief, sponges breathe by means of their outer layer. The inner layer consists of small cells armed with whips which create a current to draw in the small water animals which form its food. Between these two is another layer, which secretes the chalky, or horny, spicules which form the skeleton...