Word: belief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Munsterberg does not believe, however, that American scholarship is "all that it ought to be." One reason for this belief offers itself at once: "In Germany the very idea of a university demands productive scholarship as the centre and primary interest of all university activity; in America it is an accessory element, a secondary factor, almost a luxury, which is tolerated but never demanded as a condition." This is because in America there is no sharp line drawn between university work and college work as is the case in Germany. The regular college work does not require and even...
...apostle Paul laid down the first principles of Christian belief and organization. He believed each Christian to be the dwelling place of Christ's spirit, and, according to his somewhat mystical conception, the church is the body of Christ, because it is the unity into which are bound all Christian individuals. At no time, however, did he teach the especial sancity of the church as compared with the individual, nor believe that Christ revealed himself more truly through its collective organism than through men as units...
...author goes on to say: "The figures go far to show that the Harvard undergraduate is not the arrant idler he is sometimes supposed to be. On the other hand, they cannot be said to lend much support to the belief that he is more studious than his predecessor of twenty-five years ago. . . . The fact seems to be that the undergraduate studies about as much now as the undergraduate of his father's time studied." The working time of the present ordinary undergraduate could be increased, but the boy does not go to college merely to study. The public...
...constantly striving against the unworld-liness and angelic virtues of Hoses, Amos and the other inspired prophets. The three chief characteristics of the Hebrew nation were an extreme sensitiveness in matters of religion, a tenacity of self-preservation, and a practical tendency which found expression in the belief that works were more important than the faith, as the works implied the faith...
...half mile and two mile runs there is a distinct lack of promising material, and in the pole vault the loss by graduation of Bascom Johnson will be keenly felt. Under Murphy's training the men have developed rapidly, and the material seems to warrant the belief that the track team, as a whole, will be stronger than the 1900 team...