Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are only sixty candidates for the Princeton Mott Haven team, but Captain Vredenburgh is very sanguine in his belief that Princeton will be strongly represented when the great day comes. The loss of Cary is of course regretted but there are other men in college for the 100 and 220 yard dashes who are expected to pass Harvard and Yale's best sprinters. There is also a confident feeling that Woodbridge '92, in the mile, and Turner '93, in the half-mile, are tolerably sure winners in these events...
...than a learned fool. The literature of the Old Testament is a wisdom literature and while it does not give a solution to the mysteries of life, it teaches us to fear God and this is the beginning of wisdom. Religion is not an expression of opinion nor is belief in immortality, valuable as it may be, essential to it. It is, in its truest sense faith, hope and love. They are the threads of life and give the key to the solution of its perplexities and burdens. We study science to find what reason there is in nature...
...spirit by condemning the sale of "indulgences." The case became a perfectly clear one. The Catholics held that a third party must interfere for the salvation of the individual soul, while the Protestants would not submit to have their opinions meddled with; they wanted free expression of their own belief. The Bible was the authority of the Protestants...
...treasury of the crew is not going to be filled to overflowing with money of the glee club's giving. The college would have no cause for grievance in this if it felt that the club had given what it could afford to give. But there is a belief that there was considerable unnecessary extravagance last year, that money was spent in ways that the glee club had no right to spend it in view of its debt to the college and the pressing need of the crew. No one objects to the club having a good time during...
...responsibility on the ground that there is no use in doing anything if God is to take care of all, has utterly misinterpreted the meaning of these commands. But at the other extreme is the man who has worked hard and well and who cannot rest in the belief that his best labor is all that God asks. He needs to consider the exhortations to trust, to cease all anxiety and rest in the faith that God is over all that seems so doubtful and unsure. The work that one man can do is small and seems almost useless...