Word: creeds
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...dormitories, Harvard has shown again, as she has so often in the past, that fine tolerance which is the hallmark of intellectual distinction. John Reed was one of her brilliant sons. He died for his faith in the Bolshevik revolution. It matters not that his political creed was in violent opposition to anything of the kind entertained by most Harvard men then or now. Harvard is not concerned with his opinions, but with the spirit of a man who gave everything he had in support of what he believed. Not as a Communist, but as an idealist does she honor...
...Brooklyn-born Yaleman has done what he could to hoist it to its feet. Jolly, plump Dave Sholtz went to Florida at 22 to study law. Becoming an Elk, a Shriner, a Rotarian and president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, he learned to spout the booster's creed. When Florida elected him Governor in 1932 he proved his loyalty by routing official drones, paring expenses, making the State's financial outlook the most hopeful in seven years...
...LeBlanc and Robert M. Harriss, unorthodox Wall Streeters who believed the Road to Recovery lay through the Vale of Dollar Devaluation and the Slough of Silver Remonetization. The Priest took them for his guides. Now facts & figures cascaded from his tongue in musical billions, and he had a creed: "There is enough of everything in this nation except money...
...shelves. So, too, his own world has saluted Mr. Justice Holmes as the first jurist and first gentleman of his time. But the world a century hence may well honor him best as a great philosopher, whose creative thought chanced to be channelled into the law. At once creed, autobiography and epitaph is a passage from a speech he made to Harvard students years...
...Abraham Lincoln never joined a church. Said he: "Whenever I find a church that takes as its creed, 'To love God with all one's heart and soul and strength and mind and one's neighbor as himself,' I will join that church...