Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...merely a truism to assert that any charitable mechanism, when it gets well to work, is sure to furnish results that were little anticipated. A system of eleemosynary scholarships, advertised as a conspicuous part of a college scheme, will form no exception to this proposition. A class of facts, easily obtained, may appear to testify to its unalloyed beneficence; but other facts, lying below the surface, and from their nature not susceptible of documentary proof, suggest that its advantages are accompanied with decided drawbacks...
...this sentiment in regard to work I ascribe what truth there may be in the opinion which I have quoted. To say that the sentiment ought to be corrected would be a mere truism. Of this we may be sure, that in the long run hard work will tell against liberal advantages. Harvard men are now judged in the outside world by their catalogue and list of electives; and their agreeable manners serve to heighten the favorable impression. But in time the artificiality and unfitness for real life of most Harvard men will be discovered...