Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is not done at Harvard. Perhaps the first obstacle in the way is the official fear that information may be mishandled in the presentation, and the conviction that the surest preventative is to withold information. There may also exist the belief that official disbursement of publicity material will be interpreted as the activity of a university anxious to find itself on the front pages as often as possible. But it is definite lack of appreciation of the meaning and value of properly controlled publicity that is assuredly present in circles of Harvard authority...
...from Edison's kinetoscope to a small, tight trust consisting of ten producing companies. Zukor, looking for new attractions for his houses, had been thinking of production when he wrote the slogan that afterward became the name of his company?the Famous Players. Gambling all his money on his belief that there would be profits in advertising cinema actors like "legit" actors, he fought to break the trust. While his wife sold her jewels and friends loaned their savings, he moved into a new apartment, bought an automobile, rented offices in the Times Building, Manhattan, and presented Sarah Bernhardt...
University 7600! Where is the switchboard located, and how many lines does it include? After calling various offices of the University, always under this same number, undergraduates are curious as to the answers of these and similar questions. Contrary to popular belief, the switchboard is not located in the University information office, but is installed in a private office on the top floor of Lehman Hall designated as the University switchboard room...
...highly improbable that at Harvard any division under one Faculty could be organized into units as self-sufficient as this. No one familiar with the University would hold such a belief. The existence of the other parts of the University, each under its own Faculty, exercises too powerful an influence to permit such a system...
College students are a privileged class no doubt. They are selected by rigorous test as fit persons to receive an education. To pass those tests implies intelligence. It also implies a belief on the part of college authorities that persons admitted to undergraduate status will appreciate their privileges and opportunities and utilize them in training themselves for citizenship...