Word: belief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Board of Directors. Our Society has not escaped entirely the dangers that beset industrial concerns or trading concerns that are carried on by democratic bodies. Those dangers are: unwillingness to pay the salaries that will retain men of distinguished efficiency; unwillingness to trust the expert; and the belief that the man put into office by accident, or through the activity of an insignificant minority, can intervene intelligently, and is in duty bound to intervene in matters of detail...
There is a growing belief that both the Commencement season and the day itself can be made more attractive. This letter is sent to every member of the Alumni in order that a full expression of opinion on his part may aid the Committee of Ten in the preparation of its report to be presented at the regular Annual Meeting of the Alumni next June...
...organization since its founding in 1802 and described the religious work which it carries on now at Brooks House in Cambridge and in Boston. Rt. Rev. William Lawrence '71, Bishop of Massachusetts, spoke on Phillips Brooks--and especially of his uncompromising love for the truth of his belief in the binding obligation of truth on a man's life as well as his thought, and finally of his conviction that all search for moral truth would end sooner or later in alliegance to Jesus of Nazareth...
...reason for the increase in the number of dropped Freshmen, the Dean says: "My own belief connects the increase of dropped Freshmen with the increase of conferences and short tests in our large lecture though what may be called 'the greater Boston' contributed but two hundred and nineteen to a class of five hundred and thirty-seven, the same region is responsible for thirty-three dropped Freshmen out of sixty. If these facts 'throw a dark light' on Boston as an educational centre, it must be remembered that courses and with the corresponding decrease of weight given to examinations...
...something to be said for the landlady who was accused of religious intolerance because she would not let her boarder sacrifice a bull to Jupiter in her front parlor. A college must not become merely a refuge for cranks. If a professor of Astronomy were now converted to a belief in the Ptolemaic system, he could hardly be permitted to teach it to a class of Freshmen...