Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot deny with any degree of certainly the presence of the psychic element in human nature, but we do know that there has never yet been a public or private demonstration of spiritualism which has not been exposed eventually as trickery and fraud. It is my personal belief that no one who has left this earth has, or ever will come back in body or spirit," said Mr. Frederick Dunworth, well known exposer of fraudulent spiritualism, after fully convincing a large audience in the Living Room of the Union last night that he could raise tables mysteriously, make spirit photographs...
After being asked of his own belief in God, how Noah got all the animals into the Ark, and his reconciliation of the Copernician theory, Dr. Straton interrogated the members of the audience...
...Pacific. Said he: "It is my opinion that the aircraft problem as now before this Board is the most difficult problem in organization that has ever been presented. It is new and difficult in itself. The capabilities of airplanes have not yet been well established, but in popular belief are considered to be potentially enormous. The question cannot be properly considered without considering it in its relation to the whole national defense, which has become so complicated that it may die of its own complications unless these complications are treated by highly skilled physicians, unprejudiced to any particular branch...
...number of years in an increasingly persistent belief has prevailed that all is not well with American universities. Many criticism and almost as many remedies have been offered through the press by men interested in educational affairs. One recent writer believes the trouble to be that universities are spending billions for buildings and giving only loose change to professors. Another believes that college entrance requirements are at the bottom of the accumulation of woes. And now comes Abraham Flexner in the Atlantic Monthly for October who avows that the trouble lies in the fact that the term university...
...enforced religious observance, but compelled by the physical limitations of their spiritual edifice, the Yale authorities had decreed that only freshmen would be required to attend daily services hereafter. The three upper classes would alternate their weekdays of devotion, would worship alternate Sundays. Dean Frederick S. Jones expressed the belief that friends of Yale would hasten to donate a new and bigger chapel if assured that the student body would welcome it. In line with the general congestion of Yale's historic quadrangle, Dean Jones further suggested, "as a bare possibility", the erection of a 20-story skyscraper, similar...