Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administration for carrying on "a real and true persecution of Catholics," and since Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles has retorted with disparaging references to "the grunts of the Pope," it was major news last week that Roman Catholics believe the situation to have altered radically. Clearly they pin this belief on the fact that Mexico is on the eve of a presidential election with only one candidate in the field-onetime President Alvaro Obregon. Presumably his inauguration is assured for next December, and last week Prelate Ruiz hinted broadly that he had received assurances from President-Apparent Obregon that better...
...centenary. Substantial and progressive, ft has increased its circulation by 50% in the last seven years, now stands sixth in the nation in classified advertising lineage. It is devoted to the cause of good Republicanism and Mr. Gannett will not interfere. He reassures the doubtful: "It is my belief that a newspaper publisher should be free from any political ambitions. . . . The editor of the Democrat and Chronicle . . . will not have to obey orders ... so long as he is intellectually honest, sincere, fair, tolerant and clean. I do not care fundamentally for money . . . have no special interests ... no axes to grind...
Tradition, and perhaps a belief that little weight is laid on the degrees, are the factors against making a rational change. The first is vague but powerful: the second is weak, for to the laity, if not to the academic world, the connotation of S.B. is unavoidably that of a student of science. Since the degree is a result of college work, it would be a more logical procedure were the universities of the country to rearrange the requirements for these degrees, and settle the difference by awarding the degree of Bachelor of Science to men whose field of study...
...offered next year for the advertisement most effective in its use of the display line. In addition there will be awards offered for the most effective use of text, of pictorial ilustration, and of typography. The award for the best advertising research has been discontinued because of the belief of the University authorities that this award had not been a stimulus for more effective research work. The prize for the best combination use of text and illustration has also been discontinued...
...purpose of the last two years of college. At Harvard more emphasis is put upon a thorough comprehensive knowledge of one's main field of study, with other field occupying an ancillary position. The Harvard system devotes two years to an intensive study of a selected field in the belief that the-finest education is obtained by that man who at the end of four years has a detailed knowledge of one extensive field and a broad conception of its place in the whole range of study...