Word: faith
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...close to this article. "We, in Oxford, brought up amidst the beauty and sweetness of that beautiful place, have not failed to seize one truth,-the truth that beauty and sweetness are essential characters of a complete human perfection. When I insist on this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this one sentiment for beauty and sweetness, our sentiment against hideousness and rawness, has been at the bottom of our attachment to so many beaten causes, of our opposition to so many triumphant movements. And the sentiment is true, and has never...
...that verify progress, to add to the experience of the individual the experience of the race, to prove that no effort is possible without its result-and no result possible without effort; to send the young man out into life equipped to make a place in it, and with faith which shall never grow old that whatsoever of good, however humble, he puts into the world shall abide in it forever. That there are college weaklings, as there are weaklings everywhere, is not to be denied; but it is the purpose and mission of the true college to add 'strength...
...nine should be turned out in the spring. It is a disgrace that so many classes in succession have succumbed to their Yale classmates in base-ball, and it is time that a resolute "brace" should be made to turn the tide in the other direction. We have great faith in enthusiasm and firmly believe that if the present freshman go to work with the earnest determination to win and back it up with more faithful and harder work than has been done by their predecessors, they will have great probability of success. Let them once for all decide that...
...representative is allowed to each district, in England the number runs from one to four, and it frequently happens that members of the same party run for the same seat in the House of Commons, and it is not considered by any means, a breach of party faith. The result has frequently been, to elect the candidate of the minority. Especially was this the case in the last election in which the Conservatives lost a number of seats. So that now, a caucus system has been devised called the "Birmingham System," which in many respects resembles the one in vogue...
...Saturday Evening Gazette is authority for the statement that the secretary of a Harvard class has such faith in Bell telephone stock that he has invested the class fund...