Word: belief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Zueblin showed that orthodoxy was not confined to the realm of religion but was to be met with in politics, social customs, economics and other walks of life. In religion it shows itself as devotion to accepted tenets of belief, in politics as party loyalty, in social customs as race prejudice and alienation, and in economics as class consciousness...
...that the exactions of tribute on the natives is for public improvements, is absurd. His sole aim is to drive the natives to their limit in gathering India rubber for his consumption, and the instances of cruelty on the part of soldiers to gain this end are barbarous beyond belief. Not only are their bodies mutilated, but they are frequently killed and eaten by the native soldiers in the employ of Leopold. The natives are not lazy, but on the contrary, most industrious when not tyrranized by native troops, and eagerly avail themselves of a chance for betterment...
...second place, this interpretation must have the power to impress human minds and to influence human lives. A man who through all the changes and vicissitudes of life has remained true to his religion can no longer doubt his belief...
...principal reasons advanced by the Faculty in favor of cutting down the number of intercollegiate contests is a belief that intracollegiate athletics, giving an opportunity for every man to indulge in "sport for sport's sake," cannot exist beside the overwhelming interest in games between the colleges. They also believe that the undergraduates are not unanimously opposed to a curtailment of schedules. Every opportunity that is lost to disprove these beliefs helps just so much to defeat our own aims...
...Yale Alumni Weekly, in discussing this move of the Yale management, says: "It has been felt here for some time that the best results were not being reached through professional coaching a plan which was tried three years ago in the belief that a training in the technic of the game was the thing wanted. There was an immediate improvement in the liner points of the game, but * * * there came about unconsciously a shifting of responsibility from the captain, where Yale tradition says it shall belong, to the coach, which in crucial times was disastrous...