Word: belief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great many of the undergraduates and alumni have accepted as final the announcement that Princeton will not play any football. Others have expressed a belief that it is not too late to have a University squad out to prepare another season or even play one game with the University...
...drily humorous for sons of New England, raised in the belief of the excelling and unalterable loyalty of their native states, to see a presumable unwillingness to fill in measure, not in abundance, the nation's demands. It is yet time, although barely time, to see that those demands are filled...
...furnish useful information, but also to train and discipline the mind to its highest power. Consequently, those studies which experience has shown to be the most serviceable for this end have been, and should be, the fundamental subjects in any course of study. This may be an erroneous belief and if it should prove to be the case, such a course of study ought to be discarded. If not, the best manner of teaching them must be found, and instruction maintained to its full extent. The fundamental purpose of this conference is to answer the recent attacks on classical studies...
...furnish useful information, but also to train and discipline the mind to its highest power. Consequently, those studies which experience has shown to be the most serviceable for this end have been, and should be, the fundamental subjects in any course of study. This may be an erroneous belief, and if it should prove to be the case, such a course of study ought to be discarded. If not, the best manner of teaching them must be found, and instruction maintained to its full extent...
...considerable military training already, are advised to apply for admission to Plattsburg or the corresponding camp in their section of the country. Those who do not succeed, and all other men over 20 years old and physically fit, are strongly urged to enroll in the Harvard Corps; in the belief that, although to do so will not lead to a commission in three months, it will lay a foundation, theoretical and practical, that will fit for one in no long time thereafter." "A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...