Word: falsehood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Amid the many utterly fictitious stories published in the Boston papers concerning the recent student celebration, there is one malicious falsehood which we feel that we should publicly deny, as it has been copied in several papers and is calculated to do much harm. It is said that President Eliot addressed the students as they passed his house, telling them that he would put a stop to all athletic contests if the celebration continued. No student in the University would believe this report for a moment, but outsiders, who know very little of Harvard, may be imposed upon. To these...
...article in question; for I think that a calm and unprejudiced reading of it will convince Harvard men that there is nothing in the sentences to merit either the "censure of the entire University" or so extreme a charge as that which Professor de Sumichrast makes of "absolute falsehood." This is word for word all that the Advertiser says regarding the matter of college conferences...
Beyond the suggestion of resemblance to the Amherst Senate, and the statement that these conferences are an entirely new thing at Harvard, there is nothing in the above that can justly be called absolute falsehood; and even these two sentences appear merely harmless mis-statements, written in no spirit that deserves in the least degree the censure of the entire University...
Every other statement is an absolute falsehood...
...truly heroic life, is there not something more than human? We can estimate pleasure, but who can say how much it is one's duty to do this or that? The difference between truth and falsehood is immeasurable; one can't take an intermediate stand. A mother's love is limitless; it gives all and lasts forever. Was there not a divine element in the death of Sydney Carleton, and though but fiction, what a lesson it should teach us! Should we not in our lives include divine elements? Emerson well phrased it in the following aphorisom: "Don't leave...