Word: belief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...printing the editorial referred to in Mr. Grew's letter from Berlin, the CRIMSON was attempting to express the interest which certain College men had shown in regard to the Government services. If our belief that employment in them was not permanent was wrong, as it seems to have been, it was only, because that belief was prevalent...
...been run so far, but at the same time we cannot help feeling that a committee that has collected a considerable amount of money from the student body for a given project, is under obligations to further that project to the best of its ability. It is not our belief that any enthusiasm has been lost in this matter. It is simply dormant and needs proper leadership to bring it forth. Why are not the separate class committees efficiently collecting this money by notifying the individual men that their pledges are due, and why is there not a Freshman Committee...
Several of the most eminent educators and business men of the East have planned gradually to build up in Africa an institute, similar to the Hampton Institute in Virginia, and to put Mr. Cele in charge of it. Their belief is that the way to solve the negro problem is to give the negroes confidence and intelligence through work well done. This committee consists of: President A. Lawrence Lowell '77, President Faunce of Brown; Mr. F. Kelsey of the Yale Corporation and president of the Title Guarantee Trust Company of New York; Dr. Henry B. Frissell, president of the Hampton...
...first editorial article in the Advocate of October 24 pleads for two weeks recess at Christmas; the second expounds the value of keeping certain hours sacred to study. Both are good-humored. Both are persuasive also; though the first suggests belief in the vulgar error that work is evil, and the second treats as a discovery what every sensible schoolboy knows. "The better plan is to have times appointed for study as for other pursuits," is more nearly worth saying in Harvard College than it ought to be. "Time passed with a book is not always passed in grasping ideas...
...Potter '14, first scholar of the Senior class urged the freshmen not to overlook scholarship as one of the great activities. Let not hard work discourage, for everything calls for hard work. The belief that scholarship necessitates a hermit's life is a delusion and absolutely discredited. To declare, as some do that study is uninspiring is to hold in contempt the greatest things that men have ever said or thought or done...