Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...their announcements. Its first function is to give the news. No consideration of advertising should encroach on the news. The chief effort of the editors should be to collect as much real news as possible and to present it in the most compact and orderly fashion. This seems a truism; but anyone who has read the CRIMSON for many years, will agree that, like other truisms, it needs to be constantly repeated. For there is too seldom issued a copy of any college paper which may serve as a model in the three requisites--completeness, accuracy and perspective. The second...
...Sunday saloon." Theodore Roosevelt was put at the head of those forces which could repeal this law, and failed because his enforcement took effect only on the people of New York City and made the law obnoxious. As Dr. Abbott said a few weeks ago, the old truism of enforcing a bad law to secure its repeal does not apply when the law is enforced upon one community and enacted by another...