Word: candor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there are any men in the class who have not received these papers, the secretary should be notified immediately. Once more it is urged that the questions asked in the Class Life Blanks be answered with all candor and accuracy. Care should also be taken in filling out the postal card and the blank for the class subscription, as several cases have occurred in which they have been returned with omissions...
Thus we are told that Whitman's apparent vanity is broad-minded candor; that his crudeness of form is a positive virtue; for thereby he expresses with greater freedom the great acts and underlying principles of daily life. Whitman, says Burroughs, is superior to Emerson, in that the latter's intellect starves out his sympathies and emotions. Again, Whitman rises above the sphere of literary culture and conventional form which confines Tennyson and Browning. He belongs rather with Homer, Job, and Isaiah, for his poetry is more than literature; it is humanity itself...
...belief. This attitude is common among young men, and especially among those who have been reared in evangelical homes. They are taught to believe in a faith in which their parents and friends appear to believe. They too acknowledge it and are in sympathy with it, but their candor and their love of fairness lead them another way. Their great difficulty is in dispelling this obscurity and doubt...
...sake of candor I must confess there are all gradations between these extremes. But others beside myself have noticed that many of the examinations this year are of the kind in which we are bothered in some way that ought to be avoided...