Word: belief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some arrangement of this nature has long been needed here. It is a matter of universal belief that great extravagance is unavoidable in the present manner of conducting the expenditures of the various athletic teams. Therefore the proposition, we hope, will be accepted immediately by the other three organizations whose approval is necessary...
...leading editorial in to-day's "Advocate" is well written and the several points of which it treats are well taken. We wish to sustain our sister paper in the opinions expressed. It is our belief that much of the ill feeling which is shown between the rival colleges is due more to misrepresentation and misunderstanding than to any other cause. We have tried to keep our columns free from the continual petty wrangling seen in many of our smaller exchanges and which is useful only to the managing-editor for filling space. In this attempt to stop unnecessary debating...
...have been confined to the certain few; but, nevertheless, the influences of such conclusions are altogether in the wrong direction, and should be corrected with all the thoroughness possible. If the Base-Ball Association is to be changed, let it by all means be done with a frankness and belief in good motives and yet with iron-clad by-laws as well. - Yale Courant...
...said to be imbued when he perceives the green oasis rising 'midst the Saharan sands. It has been urged in some quarters that a recess of one day would be worse than useless, and that the day would be literally wasted. This is not so, however, for in our belief, every one would do better work in the weeks which follow. O, that the kindly eyes of the benign overseers may rest in favor on this final wail of the long, long series...
...development of this principle, still the church had always repented such remissness to what had always been a fundamental part of its doctrine. Religion-less humanitarianism could offer as a motive nothing more than a sense of the wrongs of humanity. Christianity had as its motive the stirring belief - the divinity of each human soul. The power of Christian humanitarianism lay in its threefold presentation - by the Gospel, Preaching and the Church. Christianity had proved in the past to be, and always would prove to be the sole permanent strength of humanitarianism...