Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty now send their second warnings to parents or guardians in the form of registered letters, in order to prevent their interception by the interested students or their friends. The discovery of this plan has caused some indignation among college men, and it implies an insulting disbelief in their honor. [News...
...interesting to note in connection with the renewed discussion in college of the question of temperance, brought about by the efforts of the Total Abstinence League, that President Porter of Yale has just declared publicly his disbelief in prohibition as impracticable. He believes, however, in strict license, and says he looks forward to the time when intoxicating liquor will be regarded as dangerous as dynamite now is, and its sale as carefully restricted...
...Harvard College, with its Latin inscription, "For Christ and the Church," is printed on a prospectus of the veterinary school, which is soon to open. The New York Herald has this from a student's letter in regard to it: "If Harvard can introduce Christianity into the horse business, disbelief in miracles will...