Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is written to the girl at home she does not understand. There is no understanding in her. The engagement is broken and with it the last of that other world is gone. He faces an empty existence and stands looking over the sea. His old self, his old belief, his old love have passed away...
...statement that athletics "make" an institution and that reputation is based on athletic achievement are examples of the fallacies with which some ardent followers of sports have become bamboozled. Alumni demanding intersectional contests and winning teams at any cost voice the belief that no single feature is as important as athletics. From such beliefs spring situations like that which recently occurred when the president of a great eastern university was about to address an alumni gathering. He was asked by the committee in charge to limit himself in his remarks to fifteen minutes because the head football coach...
...preserving the American merchant marine leads naturally to the alternative question of why bother to preserve it at all? Barring the war-time value of such a fleet which our militarists will never allow us to forget, there is every reason to suppose that--contrary to the usual belief--the existence of a large merchant service is an actual menace to the industry of this country. Any reader of Professor Taussig's "Principles of Economics" will tell you that in the long run imports must balance exports and that our credit abroad for things sold will just offset our debts...
...past editorials we expressed the belief that the justification of athletics, particularly at Harvard, was two fold: they served to make financially possible for all the students participation in some form of sport, and they served as the one tangible bond between Harvard men as such, particularly for those Harvard men who, because of immaturity, can not be bound together in any other way. Let us, in the light of these two factors, consider the question which is raised by President Lowell...
...situation in France is critical--but just what will happen few dare to prophesy. There are several good reasons for believing that the present cabinet will not weather the storm, as those acquainted with French politics point out. But there is still another reason for this belief outside of parties and politicians, if the "New York Times" is correct in saying that "Poincare does not love conferences. Before he accepted office and ever since he has been repeating the statement, and so it is probable that if any agreement (with regard to the problem of Angora) is ever come...