Word: belief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unity and find them in a common admiration of the same sort of characters; the same love of freedom which we found in Harvard's ideals, freedom which always separates other men from savages and the barbarians; a conception of law as necessary to democracy; and an undying belief cherished by all Americans and newcomers in the dignity and worth of man and his power to rise indefinitely...
...sacramental idea has been so much bound up with the life of the Christian Church that it seems quite unwarrantable to omit it and reserve the other supernatural elements. In this respect, as in the belief in the immortality of the soul, there is no middle path to choose, for Christianity defies all attempts to compromise with any of the humanitarian or ethical codes. A man is either a Christian or a non-Christian in his beliefs...
...accordance with a belief that the nature of Phi Beta Kappa is not sufficiently understood by many undergraduates, the following statement has been prepared by the society, at the recommendation of the Student Council...
...such examinations as this that are primarily responsible for the prevalent undergraduate conviction that high marks in College do not necessarily represent any particular intellectual attainments, but are merely proof of a considerable development of the faculty of memory. That there is some justification for this belief is evident from the fact that with an average of less than three minutes allotted to each question (as was the case in the examination mentioned above), nothing but a rapid penmanship and an excellent memory would be of use to a student in the acquisition of a high mark...
...LECTURES ON PRAGMATISM AND RELIGION. II. "The Status and Value of Religious Belief." Dr. H. M. Kallen. Emerson...