Word: belief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lane '81, president of the Memorial Society, opened last night's meeting in Smith Halls by stating his belief that although we should all look ahead, yet it is sometimes good to turn back to "the day before yesterday." With this in mind, the Memorial Society was founded some 20 years ago to keep fresh the memory of our famous men and to cultivate the traditions of the University. "It was the Society that placed the bronze tablets on the walls of the most venerable buildings in the Yard; it was the Society that laid out that invaluable guide...
...curious belief is prevalent, especially among men who have never attended an operatic performance, that in order to enjoy the opera one must be gifted with extraordinary musical talent. But in fact, the opera, combining as it does music and drama, thus furnishing aesthetic enjoyment not only to the ear but to the eye, presents a far easier opportunity to the so-called unmusical to enjoy music, than does a concert or recital. By going to an opera and flixng his attention on the dramatic element, as he would in the case of an ordinary play, the man who knows...
...believe our observation of the great war which has been going on for the last sixteen months confirms us in the belief that under freedom for the people--freedom in the school, the college, in business--the greatest efficiency is to be developed...
...rest of the world. Rather have they been an element of weakness to Germany herself. They are not essentially different from the spirit of haughty masterfulness that characterized English foreign policies and English insular self-sufficiency throughout the larger part of the nineteenth century; or from the French belief in the superiority of France in all matters of higher civilization; or even from the American assumption that the United States is the foremost standard-bearer of international justice and righteousness. They are an impressive instance of that tragic national self-overestimation which seems to be inseparable from periods of striking...
...Beta Kappa is not a secret organization: it rewards scholarship in the entire College. And it is in the belief that it discharges that function in ways essentially satisfactory that this suggestion for crystallizing those methods is offered. Care should be taken that future members appreciate the fact that it is scholarship alone, freed from all personal considerations, upon which they are to base their elections...