Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yesterday afternoon as a send-off for the team chosen to debate with Princeton, was well attended and very enthusiastic. J. P. Hall, president of the Union, presided. Short speeches were made by several former 'Varsity debaters, all of whom expressed great confidence in the team and the belief that the debate would be won on Friday by Harvard. The speakers were chiefly former bebatcrs with Princeton and they told several reminiscences of the two previous Princeton debates...
...chess player performing the mechanical act of moving the pieces while an expert behind his back plans the moves for him, can hardly imagine that a professor stands on the platform behind the debater, whispering in his ear, though his words would seem to imply some such belief. If the part of the chess expert were limited to improving his pupil's play before the match the comparison would be less infelicitous...
...since the coming of Mr. Lehmann, and to show the enthusiasm which the remarkably good work of the candidates in the trial race aroused. Not in the memory of any undergraduate has there been such general interest in the crews as there is now, and such a universal belief, throughout the student body, that the eight is in the best of hands and has unusually bright prospects of victory next spring...
...been the almost universal hope and the general belief in Cambridge that the two universities would not allow a trivial matter to keep their athletic teams apart long. The good, which some believed a cession of athletics would accomplish, has been done, if it will be done at all, and it is time for a new and healthier rivalry to begin. It is to be hoped that those who have in charge the proposals for the renewal of athletics will not let any trivial technical points of pride or diplomacy keep the two universities apart...
...sure to get them-but all the other offices would be looked upon as rewards to be gained by achievement for Harvard and the class. If everyone of those eighteen honors could be openly competed for, society and non-society men contending on equal terms, it is the belief of the writer that the enthusiasm of every candidate for and every player on the 'Varsity and class teams would be quickened...