Word: belief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...make it possible for man to help and not hinder the plan of God. Men can regulate the future of mankind on this plan. But if we do not believe in fatalism imposed on mankind as a whole, we are, nevertheless, in very serious danger of falling into a belief on another kind,--the fatalism which is called the fatalism of the multitude. We are a little too much inclined to think that the individual is carried along by the spirit of his age, and that he has all he can do to go along with that spirit...
Spring football practice at Yale will begin Monday. At a meeting held Thursday 65 men reported and were addressed by Walter Camp, Howard Jones, the new head coach, and Captain H. H. Ketcham. The belief was expressed that in the past Yale had paid too much attention to telling the men just what they should do in a game, and this year more emphasis will be laid on the basic principles allowing the men to work out their own methods of attack and defence in actual play...
Admitting that a Freshman should not concentrate in studies to which he is averse, we may ask, "In what should he specialize?" Most people will say, "You'd better take as a backbone of your study that which you are going to make your life work." To this belief, however, President Lowell is a heretic. One of the objects of a course is to get certain points of view here which are not obtained in later life. If a man is going to be a physician, it is good for him to get a taste of literature in College. Whether...
...July 1 and close on August 12. Summer instruction has been offered at Harvard for more than forty years, a longer period than at any other university in this country. The summer courses were primarily established in order to provide university instruction for teachers, and were planned in the belief that short-term study can be made most effective by concentration on a single subject. Thus a student is expected to enroll regularly in only one course, and to give that for six weeks his whole time and effort...
...their punishments. In the instance of the punishment of the lovers, Francesca di Rimini and Paolo, however, Dante pronounces his verdict on love in the somewhat later form. "I could not love thee half so much, loved I not honor more." And, yet, Dante adds to this his belief that hearts that are once joined in true love can never be rent asunder...