Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...often suggested that college dailies give more than due proportion in their columns to athletic news thereby misleading the public as to the real interests of students. There is no disputing the fact that a willful public can find through the dailies some grounds for the belief that athletics are the first interest in colleges of today; but we fear that this is a misinterpretation to which the papers must always be more or less exposed, if for no other reason than because they are published daily...
...warm belief," he concludes, "in University Extension when I entered the work four years ago, and the experience gained in its prosecution has left me with a still firmer belief in its importance and feasibility. I congratulate you upon the results which you have already accomplished, and still more on the great opportunity which lies before you. University Extension is, I believe, destined to prove one of the greatest educational movements of the last quarter of this century. I consider it a high privilege to have been identified with its beginnings in the United States, and I sincerely regret that...
...wise way in which the Volunteer Work had been fitted to the conditions of student life. Professor Peabody emphasized the value of the recent development of charity work among the students in bringing into real unity the various moral, religious and benevolent activities of the University. He expressed the belief that the movement was bringing to a real fruition the purposes set forth in the meeting at Sanders Theatre last fall when the present form of the enterprise was inaugurated...
...this belief in another world may be the most essential thing we have to perform in this world. If we have needs which demand an outside universe, and these religious demands are given us to live by, what reason is there why that universe should not be there? We see many men live simply by faith, and often faith is the only thing that makes something come true. This alone ought to be an assurance of the reasonableness of that faith. The essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists...
Professor James closed with these words: "Do not be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. The proof that you are right may not be clear before the day of judgment (or some stage of Being which that expression may serve to symbolize) is reached. But the faithful fighters of this hour, or the beings that then and there will represent them, may then turn to the fainthearted who here decline to go on, with words like those with which Henry IV greeted the tardy Crillon after a great victory...