Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failure of the International Cable Commission thus far to arrive at any final agreement lends credence to the belief that the other powers are trying to prevent the United States from sharing in the control of the former German communications system. The Allies seem to have adopted the view that American rights have been impaired by the Senate's failure to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. They forget that our rights as one of the "principal and Allied Powers" have never been resigned by us, nor left to be disposed of as the Council of the League sees...
...acknowledge your courteous letter in which you ask me to express an opinion as the causes of what you evidently think is a rather general belief that a Harvard education tends to make a man a snob. The quickest and best way to answer your question is to say simply that I neither think it does nor do I think that there is any such general belief. I know nothing of the alleged "hostility" to Harvard either in the west or elsewhere to which the editorial from the CRIMSON, which you so kindly enclose, refers, and I am disinclined...
...reveal the fact that the Lloyd George government is becoming unpopular and must be soon reconstructed, still the Premier retains his great majority in the House and will continue to do so for sometime to come, even it all the elements of the Opposition unite against him. The belief that the Coalition is built on political sand seems without foundation. Under the leadership of the Welsh wizard there is little doubt that the present government will be sustained in its policy and that England will not be thrown into the troubled waters of a general election...
...course we want it; but we need not seek it in those places where standards are just emerging from the chaos of educational invention. We have it here in that subtle influence of tradition that no man can escape, no matter how callous; we have it in the common belief that as Harvard men we can contribute to American culture the particular qualities of the University and its environment. Perhaps this is a sort of provincialism; but I prefer a vital provincialism to an emasculated nationalism, if we are concerned with the development of intellectual diversity. It is an obvious...
...wish to remark on your editorial in today's Crimson concerning Earmark vacations. Altho the opinion of an unclassified student may be quite negligible; nevertheless I do not hesitate to give it in this instance. I heartily concur with you in he belief that the matter of veracious is not as trivial a factor of Harvard antagonism as some individuals may think. And a great number of students with whom I have spoken have expressed a similar feeling about...