Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sometimes is, merely the power of putting two and two together, has been a characteristic of the most eminent men of history. Without it such leaders as Moses. Washington, and Lincoln, or scientists like Newton and Franklin would have been impotent. Friendship and love, which necessitate a belief and trust in discos qualities, and even religion itself, without this seventh sense would be impossible
...these games that their right to the aid which the Committee is so amply able to give can be vindicated. This aid has now been almost entirely withdrawn, not for the sake of economy, but because the Committee has decided to support only the four "big" sports in the belief that they alone have earned by their popularity the right to receive financial support form the Committee funds. Among these sports, to be sure, rowing is not self-supporting, nor, I believe, is track; yet the Committee has refused to concede the injustice of giving $3,200 worth of instruction...
...CRIMSON in an editorial asks The Daily Princetonian to tell Princeton's view in regard to systematic attempts to berattle athletic opponents and to tell how far the belief is true that Princeton has tried to do this...' By 'systematic attempts to berattle opponents,' we judge is meant the 'continued cheering and organized noise-making' mentioned in the same editorial. Without entering here upon a lengthy discussion of cheering from the standpoint of the welfare of sport, we will say that cheering is a recognized means of supporting a team in the field; that by this means support is given...
Within the lifetime of some of us science has changed the aspect of the world. It is a question whether science makes the individual more or less hopeful or immortality. Alone, science may be said to lessen the belief of the individual in a future life. An immense majority of men live without any idea of immortality, a large group regard the hereafter as one of man's inventions, while a third, and much smaller class, lay hold of the life hereafter as a governing influence in this...
Mystics and idealists compel admiration by the lives they lead. The salt of the earth are those who preserve for us a belief in the existence of a future life. On questions of this kind the only enduring belief is through faith. In the presence of so many unsolved mysteries one must not be dogmatic and deny the existence of a future state, but must recognize as a rock of safety some belief in the world to come. But this is all. Whether we are to step from light to light or from light to darkness we do not know...