Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...individual work on the part of students' who possess the necessary initiative, and for writing and research on the part of instructors who are now restricted by academic duties in attempting any such activity. The greater freedom afforded instructors by the adoption of the plan will, in the belief of the committee, tend in time to attract to the University teachers of the highest type...
...quaint statement, however, is that this modern hermit avows his belief in the simple life, and thinks that Americans tend to "overdo things." There might be those who overdo the critical faculty to the extent of saying that one day atop a flag-pole is more than enough, and that a week spent in such a location savors in itself of overdoing things. Mr. Kelley, however, that shall be his title until his canonization upon the stage,--does not consider his martyrdom in such a light. He denies any attempt to reap publicity, swearing his simple intention of showing mankind...
...CRIMSON remains firm in its belief that the custom of "eating around" is on the decline. The proposal which it backed may not have been the correct one, it is obviously not the popular one. It was, nevertheless, an attempt and as such cannot be considered futile. Only by investigation will better conditions be reached. Failure in one experiment does not prophesy failure...
Professor Gay spoke of President Eliot's belief from the very outset in the speedy success of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Eliot was confident that by the end of the first five-year period, avowedly experimental, for which a modest financial provision had been made, the new School would have so demonstrated its usefulness that its support would be ensured. The newly appointed dean insisted that it would take at least fifteen years to come to anything like maturity, measured by both qualitative and quantitative tests. That cautious prediction has been abundantly fulfilled...
...factor in the daily life of the college. The instigators of the project at Princeton appear to be firmly convinced that student government has won its spurs by a period of restrained and sub-servient respect and that it is now prepared to partake in active guidance. If their belief is representative of their university its accuracy and justice will find ample room for demonstration on the acceptance of the Constitution which embodies their aims...