Word: belief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ever-increasing burdens of war without questioning the legitimacy or power of the authority over them. The first is that of holding out world domination as the reward of victory. The fact that the military advantage in the war has so far lain with Germany has resulted in the belief by the majority of the German people that the war is already won. The other method consists in pointing out in exaggerated terms what England and her allies will do to Germany if they win. The English have threatened not only to destroy the German government and dismember Austria-Hungary...
...exactly the same way we must contend with the belief of the average German that he will be made an economic and political slave unless he keeps the enemy at bay. In the words of President Wilson, we are fighting the German government and not the German people. But how about England and France? They must also show by some new and unquestioned means that they do not mean to be vindictive or revengeful. Otherwise the mere declaration by President Wilson, while our arms unite in effecting the purposes of our allies, will and cannot be accepted in Germany...
...belief of the Sodality that there is still sufficient interest in good music to justify the continuance of its policy of service to the musical interests of the University which it has maintained for a hundred years. It is supported in this opinion by M. Alloo, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who has been secured again as conductor. He states emphatically that since the out break of the war music has assumed "a higher, more sacred position than ever before...
...latest push of the Allied arms against the German lines is chronicled as the greatest victory in this war, in which all victories have been rather a negation of defeat than success. Some men may be led to the early belief that the power of the enemy is crumbling, and that our gathering armies may not be in at the final dissolution...
Once again Columbia comes before the world in an unenviable light. In this morning's paper we read of the expulsion of Professors Cattell and Dana from that university for holding pacifist views (oh, la belle raison!). Some of us still hold to the belief (is it so unreasonable?) that a professor dissenting from the majority opinion respecting the governmental war policy is not thereby disqualified from teaching psychology or comparative literature. The Columbia Faculty, however, take the opposite view and apparently agree with the Imperial German Government that political orthodoxy is the test of intellectual capacity. Indeed one might...