Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...arrive from all sections of the country, and although it is impossible to utilize them all, the kindly spirit in which they are made is fully appreciated and a programmne is made up that it would be impossible to duplicate under ordinary circumstances. So well grounded is the belief that the testimonial is of the highest possible order that many people do not wait to know what the programme is, but, remembering its excellence in the past, hasten to secure their seats at the earliest possible moment. Such has been the case this year, and already a most successful outcome...
Many of the old superstitions are now found only among children. Yet a few exceedingly curious beliefs, survive among us at the present time, notably the superstition still found in some parts of New England, that rats can be got rid of by writing them a letter and leaving it where they can see it. The same belief was current among the Romans...
...recent banquet of the Harvard Club of Chicago, Professor Royce explained the reasons for the Faculty's action in regard to intercollegiate football. He was apparently of the belief that if, in future years, plans for a satisfactory reform should be matured, the Faculty might withdraw their opposition to intercollegiate games. E. H. Warren '95 spoke on the sentiment among students in regard to this action. The sentiment of the graduates present, according to the Chicago Tribune, was rather with the students than the Faculty. The feeling seemed to be strong that, while reform was badly needed, the Faculty were...
When we announced our intention to begin the publication of an alumni weekly, it was our belief that we could do so without conflicting with the Harvard Graduates' Magazine. It has since been brought to our notice that a weekly might possibly draw off sufficient subscriptions from the Graduates' Magazine to endanger the latter seriously. In view of this fact, there is naturally no course open to us but to withdraw from our project. We appreciate highly the expressions of commendation from Harvard graduates which are published in another column...
...could hardly study Christ's life, he said, without being impressed with the importance which he placed in belief in God. What was meant by faith in God? Dr. Martineau said that it was hard for a man to avoid belief in God honestly, but that it was also hard to hold faith worthily. The sense of God was the greatest power of which man is possessed; faith was the appropriation and possession...