Word: belief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...system of proselyting, which is carried on in preparatory schools by the alumni of various colleges. Dean H. McClenahan, of Princeton, spoke on athletic standards and approved of the faculty's controlling all athletics. Professor R. N. Corwin, of Yale, discussed college ideals and athletics and expressed the belief that athletics should be more closely associated with intra-curriculum aims...
...younger generation irreligious? Doubtless the external forms of worship are dying out, and along with them is passing away the pious belief in arbitrary dogma. But do these symptoms really signify that science and philosophy are taking the place of religion? Do they not rather denote a change in the outward manifestations of religious spirit, while this very spirit itself remains unimpaired? The instinctive belief in an Unknowable is deep-rooted in every human being. In an unconscious way even the most skeptical scientist is religious...
...take an interest in public affairs. They need not run for office. Often more good can be done by helping others into office than by being a candidate one's self. The great assets that they and younger men bring with them to their work are enthusiasm and a belief in ideals. Their service will be of assistance to themselves as well as to the public. It will broaden them and open their eyes to the hardships and struggles going on in thousands of homes to earn a sufficiency for existence, it should teach them to appreciate the view-point...
...best time for military training, my own belief is that an interval between preparatory school and college is the natural moment; and that this should be long, enough and intensive enough to give the elementary habits of the soldier a firm footing. But for those who are already in college, the practical consideration is to find or make some place in your plans for this important part of education. And with all sorrow for the tragedy which has raised the issue in this land, we can still thank God that we live in a time when citizenship is taking...
...there is to be poetry in the theatre, everything else must be subservient to it. The real new birth of the English theatre is coming in the true poetic drama. This is the belief," Mr. Barker said, "which induced me to take up this new staging movement. If we can get the principle of staging Shakespeare right, then we have the principal of staging all poetry...