Word: belief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have purposely refrained from speaking of Germany's relation to other countries after the war but I cannot close without expressing the belief that the war will bring a new life to all the nation's engaged in it. May we not hope that the universal striving for inner reconstruction, the newly-awakened longing for a higher civic consciousness, the ideal of a national life devoted to the cultivation of the highest powers of the individual, will finally quench the blind passions and violent hatreds inflamed by the war, so that a regenerated Europe will more firmly-than ever before...
...course was not announced until late; those desiring to take it had to make more or less considerable changes in their schedules; for students of the various Graduate Schools enrolment involved an even more appreciable sacrifice, but rearrangements of schedule and other inconveniences were willingly incurred because of the belief that the work would lead to a Reserve Officers' Commission. In view of these topics, which it has raised, can the University justify its present dilatory methods in establishing a unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps? It would seem that the rules of fairness make the answer to this...
...many men in the University really know their own justification for being here? They are full to the heart with the belief that Harvard is supreme; they cultivate a cheap loyalty in cheering her on to victory in athletic contests. Yet, if they were asked by a disinterested person why they came here rather than to Colby, or Dartmouth, or New Hampshire State, they would not know. A man, or a boy or twenty cannot answer that mother liked the Crimson color, or father thought it was near home, or sister Susle wanted to see all the big games. Nevertheless...
...more than their share to equal Princeton in this respect. Yale's punting has not to date compared with that of Princeton, and Princeton's drop-kicking has been superior. Yale employs her men to better advantage in interference than Princeton, and, in general, impresses one with the belief that she has a harder kick to her attack. All this, of course, speaking from the standpoint of the present. Yale has yet to meet an attack as rugged and elusive as Tufts, but her defence against Lehigh indicated that it would serve against a better team than the Bethlehemites...
...Lack of discipline from the top to the bottom of the whole structure of the Yale Athletic Association is responsible for many of its ills, and it is our belief that regard for wise discipline is one of the principal permanent benefits to be gained by participants and the undergraduate body as a whole...