Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news to those members of the University who have felt that in recent years the college was losing prestige among secondary schools. The appointment of an undergraduate committee to see to the proper entertainment of visiting athletic teams has already proved its value this season, in combating the prevalent belief that Harvard was aloof and indifferent to the welfare--of athletic rivals and preparatory school teams during their stay in Cambridge...
...suppose that the most selfish American does not realize that the betterment and peace of the world in general and of the United States in particular will indubitably make for his own betterment and peace? It is certainly a clever bit of editorial burlesque to state your belief in. "The lasting establishment of the League of Nations under the guidance of a Republican Administration supported by such leaders as Root, Hughes, Taft, Hoover, and Wiekersham" as against "The Democratic hegemony of Taggart, Nugent and Tamany Hall". It would be closer to the truth, the of course detrimental to your argument...
...presidential election, we are told, will in all probability be fought on domestic issues, and not upon the question of League of Nations or to League of Nations. This may very well be, and yet it is our profound belief that the ultimate issue to be decided by the American people at the polls in November is and must be this: In what temper and to what degree shall they forsake their old aloofness? That they will forsake it is a foregone conclusion. It is as much beyond their power to step back into isolation as it is beyond...
...these calsic words, Jimmy Knox summed up last spring the prospects for the 1920 football season. His opinion, that since the war Harvard undergraduates have not shown the same unfaltering support to the Crimson teams that was given before the war, seems to be the unanimous belief of close followers of Harvard sport, from "Mike" to Percy Haughton...
These two opinions--the low value set on scholastic achievement and the belief that it is easy to obtain--work in a vicious circle which lowers the prestige of the scholar...