Word: belief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Graduate School for members of the school, officers of instruction and government, and other invited guests--will be held in the Faculty Room. University 5, tonight at 8 o'clock. Professor A. L. Lowell '77 will deliver an address on "The Belief that the Interests of All Men Coincide," and several informal talks will be given. After the addresses refreshments will be served and there will be opportunity for social intercourse...
...materialism which attempts to explain all things by mechanical laws of cause and effect and which emphasizes body, not mind. Philosophic opinion is now, however, beginning to favor idealism, which believes many things above mechanical law and which emphasizes mind rather than body. Emerson was thoroughly inclined to this belief of idealism and he is consequently in complete harmony with modern thinking. Because of this harmony the new Philosophy Building is called "Emerson Hall...
...than intelligence is a part of our acquirement. That such incidents ever happen we should, attribute, not to meanness of spirit, but, rather to the carelessness of youth and to the very young man's desire soon to be considered mature, serious or buried in thought. It is his belief that, since it would be weak for him to make the first advance, it is better to rouse a man's cough by the chilliness of his presence than by a hearty slap on the back. The baneful effect of such a habit of mind upon the individual and upon...
...here again he exaggerated. Probably, indeed, he would have refused to accept any credal statement about the Christ, but he had nevertheless a deep reverence for the biblical story and a profound recognition of its influence and benefits. He believed in God and immortality and constantly avowed his belief in His works...
...untroubled freedom, the art of Michelangelo brings before us the poignant strivings of a later day when the soul obtained peace only through the mastery of evil. Life as he sees it is not hopeless, but sublime. Both his sculpture and his poems bear profound testimony to his belief in the realities of Christianity...