Word: faith
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that in fostering and maintaining athletic sports generally as far as possible within our colleges, an unwise thing is being done, cannot, we think, be admitted. Whatever of bad example may have been imported into our American collegiate system from the English universities, the encouragement of a high faith in physical education is not open to objections of this sort. It is not yet time for American colleges to discountenance athletic sports and physical education. The complaint that Germany makes is far too likely to become our own, rather than one of an opposite sort...
...poem by Edwin Arnold called "Pearls of the Faith; or, Islam's Rosary," will shortly appear. It deals with the life and religious system of Mahomet...
...record in financial legislation, he said, is exceedingly discreditable. Mr. McInnes, '83. contrasted the platforms of the two parties, and favored the positive declarations of the Democrats. Mr. Saunders. '84, gave an elaborate and searching analysis of Gen. Butler's public career, showing its inconsistency and lack of good faith. He closed with a denunciation of the candidate and of the men who support him. Several members spoke from the house against Gen. Butler. The meeting was shown, both by its votes and its expressions of approval, to be by a large majority anti-Butler. The success of the debate...
...this agreement, whatever it was, that being verbal and off-hand, and no record of it being made, certain points in it, perhaps, were forgotten or overlooked by both parties, and hence the misunderstanding. I think, too, that the Harvard crew should be credited with having acted in good faith throughout the whole proceeding, for when they left New London (as is mentioned in the official statement) they firmly believed that the race had been given up. The crew has been pretty severely handled in the Columbia papers, and, in my opinion, such mud slinging is not characteristic of gentlemen...
Harvard's reason for leaving New London was because the crew supposed in good faith that the race had been given up. To sum up, it is claimed that, technically, Harvard could have claimed the race on the day for which it was first appointed; that had Harvard acted in a professional spirit, it would have so claimed it; that upon hearing of Columbia's sad misfortune, Harvard voluntarily and as a matter of courtesy kept off the course on June 24, at the hour named for the race; that when, two days later, Harvard agreed to row Columbia after...