Word: honestly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This evening at 8 o'clock Mr. C. J. Bonaparte '71, of Baltimore will speak on "The Movement for Honest Government." Mr. Bonaparte is one of the leading reformers in the country. He is chairman of the Executive Council of the National Civil Service Reform League and chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Municipal League...
...heart's content. For when an executive assumes discretionary powers with regard to the enforcement of law, this discretion must in the last analysis be exercised by the police force. He brought out the fact that we must choose a strict enforcement of the law with an honest police force or a lax enforcement of the law with its attendant corruption and black-mail, and that when you give a mayor discretion as to whether he shall enforce the law or not, he practically becomes a despot. Moreover, a lax enforcement of the law deprives it of its fundamental element...
...told that he had been beaten on the tape in the hurdles: "Well, I'm sorry," he said, "but after all it was a good race." Our duty as university athletes is, to adapt the words of George Washington, to raise an athletic standard to which the wise and honest can repair...
...last reason for remaining ignorant of evil is that this ignorance is the only possible basis for honest whole-souled fellowship and friendship. The slightest introduction of evil into the relations of life make the best and noblest friendship impossible...
...word "truth" has a meaning in every day use among men of all sorts, sincerity, frank speech, straightforward conduct, the absence of deceit. Truth is the motto of him "whose armor is his honest thought, and simple truth his highest skill." This kind of truth, however, is not the special virtue of the student or of the scholar, and has no more connection with the University than with life elsewhere. Yet thought rather than action is our object here, and so "truth" may be our peculiar motto. The man in public life, for instance, is obliged to overlook minor agreements...