Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fourth number of the Advocate appeared yesterday. The straightforward and unpretentious little sketch called "A Maker of Monuments" is written with such sympathetic tenderness that we feel as if its central figure, a dear old Colonel, whom we see writing his reminiscences of the war and smoking among his roses, must have been a real colonel whom its author had known and loved. In "The Sophist" we have much a variation of the perennial motif as Polonius might call the tragical-psychological. The bearer of the title-role convinces an enamored college-friend that there is no such thing...
...question clearly, selecting three cardinal points and working them into a solid argument for its position. The Yale team, instead of seizing on a few cardinal points, made a number of somewhat scattering arguments, no one of which was really driven home. In delivery, the Harvard speakers were more straightforward, earnest and convincing. Their precise line of argument was not met by the Yale men, who, although more mature and finished in their speaking were interior to the Harvard team in intensity and drive...
...appoint instructors only with such qualifications is snobbery and sham, seem hardly consistent. Nevertheless the main point of the article--an appeal to value more the individuality of a man and his abilities than parchment he may possess--appeals to anyone's sentiment and sense--and is advanced with straightforward convincing earnestness...
...Russell Lowell '54 and Roger Wolcott '70. "Look up to and associate with the star to which you hitch your wagon. These men were worthy of their deturs; be worthy of yours. The qualities which counted with them was that their characters rang true; they had a down-right, straightforward sense, honesty, and integrity of character. These are the foundations on which the Republic and the Commonwealth must rest...
...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...