Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there any limitations to the principle of patriotism? Is dishonesty, for example, is the breaking of solemn treaties, is ruthless inhumanity to a weaker neighbor, justified by a belief that it will conduce to the prosperity of one's own people? Is a nation morally right in seizing anything it can obtain by force or fraud, or has it a duty to deal fairly with others, and respect their rights? Would Cain have acted properly if, instead of being a single individual, he had been fifty millions to Abel's twenty-five millions and had called himself a nation...
...stationary, it would take woman many centuries to produce "the missing five ounces of female brain." If the famous English naturalist had lived to be present this afternoon in Sanders Theatre, where Madame Curie will be honored as the co-discoverer of radium, he would come away with his belief in the inferiority of the feminine intellect dissipated into thin air. Especially would he be delivered of the notion, long held and acquiesced in, that while in some practical fields of mental effort women may be successful, they have no capacity for science. And he would note, also with...
...conception of compulsory student activity is apparently based upon the philosophy that there is in reality a distinct unity of purpose between classroom work and the better undergraduate organizations. This belief meets strong opposition in many instances, but it is rapidly coming into greater favor. Students and educators are both realizing that the college athletics, the college papers, the musical organizations, and the dramatic societies, all are invaluable supplements to the academic work of the institution, and in many cases might be made virtual laboratories, rather than competing interests...
...belief of those students who are leading the movement that by this process, intelligent social-mindedness will be developed in those who are to be the leaders of the coming generation...
...departmental section, convinced the examiners that two hours should be allotted to that portion of the examinatin. They were thus confronted with the alternative of holding a single four-hour examination, or of splitting it into two two-hour parts; and they chose the latter course in the belief that it would be more generally acceptable to the students. As the two parts were originally subdivisions of one examination, it never occurred to the examiners to put them on dififerent days, nor does there seem to be any valid reason for doing so. It would certainly be unfortunate to break...