Word: belief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This afternoon Dr. Chapman and Mr. Alexander will conduct an evangelistic meeting in Sanders Theatre for the members of the University. Their coming, sanctioned by authoritative consent, indicates in Harvard a desirable toleration in matters of religion and a belief that a common spirit may be expressed in many ways and in many creeds. They are not the first evangelists who have visited the University, for Moody, Booth, Drummond and others have preceded them...
...Medical Profession is intended more for those men who are as yet undecided as to their future careers than for those who have already planned to enter medical work. It was Major Higginson's suggestion that the Union provide this series of lectures on the various professions in the belief that so many men, when they come to cast about for a means of livelihood, not having the necessary data upon which to base a comparative judgment, are likely to take up the line of work which comes nearest to hand. Comparatively few men on the whole make up their...
...plans and policies then voiced have been carried out. M. D. Follansbee '92 spoke for the Harvard Club of Chicago, naming the President's visits as the most important events of its history. Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs '75 compared the retiring with the incoming President, ascribing to both belief in unselfish liberty and devotion to the right as they...
...establishment of a series of lectures on the professions by the Union is due to the belief that while a very large proportion of the undergraduates are trying during their college course to make a wise choice of a career, that choice is often made with a superficial knowledge of the nature, inducements and difficulties of the different professions. It is also based on the belief that the occupations known as professions are all equally worthy, and that even those men who think they have a clear predilection for a particular profession make a great mistake if they...
This conception, to which the undergraduates tenaciously cling, is receiving a rude shaking at the hands of three year graduations. With so many Seniors in the Law School our belief in the unity of Harvard College is waning fast. The CRIMSON can think of no greater gift to Harvard than an increase in the requirements, that will assure once and for all the necessity of a four year course; this to be followed by a change in viewpoint among the powers that be, recognizing the pre-eminent position of Harvard College for which undergraduates yearn...