Word: belief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first opportunity afforded the class of 1914 to show its belief in its own power is the football mass meeting this evening. Those men who take no interest in their class will naturally not attend, but the others, the active element, should all make a point of being present...
...direct competition has never long endured, and that all the present papers have obtained their position by taking possession of new fields. The lack of a literary periodical led to the foundation of the CRIMSON monthly supplement in January, 1885. To quote from the history of the CRIMSON: "The belief that such work was of sufficient importance to be entrusted to separate hands led in the spring to the founding of the Monthly." The Illustrated developed a new phase of College journalism in the publication of illustrated articles upon the general affairs of the University. There have been but three...
...engaged in professional work have far too little desire for sound scholarship, and slender respect for those who work hard; while athletic triumphs are regarded as of vast importance. Now, it is a very significant fact that this condition is not due in the main to a sincere belief that prowess in sports is intrinsically of greater value than intellectual achievement. Almost every undergraduate would be proud to be told that he was destined in after life to write a remarkable history, or to make a notable scientific discovery and would be shocked to hear that...
Religion is not coextensive with ecclesiastical institutions, nor with traditions, nor with belief in supernatural beings, nor with faith alone; it does not consist of such philosophical doctrines as the doctrine of God and immortality: religion grows out of the consciousness of a disproportion between our destiny and our powers; it aims at overcoming that disproportion by uniting our inner being with some person more perfect and more powerful. Thus religion implies faith, love of some greater being, endowed, like ourselves, with consciousness and will...
...depth of the ministry demands study for the understanding of a man's own belief and the power to allay spiritual doubts in others. The minister is privileged to see the bottom of friendship and of sorrow. That men and women turn to him in distress, is one of the greatest joys of his life. Such incidents raise the height of the ministry to a level reached by few other professions. Constant contact with the highest ideals leads inevitably to a more satisfying life...