Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the legal point of view. Momentarily pausing to comment on the glories of the Boy Scout movement, he passed to the subject for discussion. He spoke of the law, as practiced in former years, as revolving wholly upon the question of responsibility, this theory being based upon the belief that man's will is supreme...
...deep was the belief of Dean Kent in the imparting of the abstract virtues through instruction that he sent cards to his colleagues in several schools of the University, requesting that they grade themselves with regard to their emphasis on Honesty, Chastity, Sincerity, Healthfulness, Economy, Service, Religiousness, Dependability, Scholarliness and High-mindedness...
...alumnae for further controversion. A typical attack, called "Why the College Sap?" may be found in this month's Ladies Home Journal. For there it reaches the mothers of potential college students, to assail them with serious doubts of the desirability of the college influence. In the optimistic belief that virtue eventually triumphs, this wearisome distortion by persons seldom qualified to speak, can be no great source of alarm. But concentrated on Smith College which has been singularly and blamelessly unfortunate in the associations gathered to its name, even with the loyal support of the alumnae, it does represent...
...CRIMSON has always advertised its competitions as the hardest form of extra-curricular activity available in the University. There are two very good reasons for this seemingly strange fact. In the first place it has always been the belief of CRIMSON editors that difficult forms of activity are eminently worth while in themselves, and that a college like Harvard will always contain a num- ber of men of a sufficiently adventurous spirts and virgorous nature to respond to the call of the admittedly difficult. The CRIMSON does not attempt to conceal the nature of its competitions because it wants only...
...neurotically dissatisfied Hedda Gabler. Denise's shadowy longings finally take form in a kind of worship of her own expectant motherhood, and crisis-inspired, she joins the Roman Church. She has a pet cocoon of a Hop Dog moth which she cherishes as a symbol of her belief in life in the chrysalis. When the Hop Dog emerges her vague urge for fulfillment will be realized. For Denise, however, it is never realized. The moth perishes due to her neglect, and her child, her ultimate justification, dies stillborn. Then Horace, in spite of the fact that he is opposed...