Word: lied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusion, I might mention that Yale's new House Plan is to include Freshmen, and in this matter, I believe will lie one of Harvard's future superiorities. W. R. Harper '30. Member of S. C. Committee on the House Plan...
...these is that dirty linen should not be washed in public. To this a sufficient answer is that it is better to be washed in public than not at all. They forget that once an incorrect story gets in print, subsequent denials will never catch up with the lie. They also fail to remember that news cannot be suppressed, that it is impossible to silence all the sources of information. Therefore, if an accurate and official statement is not made of all current events with news value, then it follows that a different kind of story will reach the papers...
...Student Vagabond" and "The Third Elective" are doing their present mechanical duty in widening the tastes and opportunities of their readers, but beneath their outward purpose there seems to lie a suggestion of a more significant movement. This method of the student sitting in on classes when he wishes and doing as little or as much work as he desires may be a forerunner of an educational system somewhat similar to the "reading method" now utilized in some institutions. Such a system would require only optional attendance to lectures or classes and independent reading and outside work, guided however...
...know the story! ... I want to denounce it as a miserable lie. I wish I could see the scoundrel who started it. . I wish people would mind their own affairs and leave mine alone. ... Of course I do not pay the regular rates for a great big hotel apartment. What I do pay is nobody's damned business! I can afford to pay what they charge...
...young priest, sliding the panel between him and the drunk, recognizes the grating sound as the same noise made by the closing doors of a street car. Fearful of unseemly disturbance, uncertain what to do, he prolongs a confession at the women's panel, chides the penitent for lying, suggests that she say a little prayer whenever she feels she is going to lie. Then he turns to the other side of the confessional, hesitates, says three "Our Fathers" and three "Hail Marys," and growls to the drunk: "Step lively there; this is King and Yonge. Do you want...