Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apparently a truism, President Lowell's statement assumes the pale glimmer of the half-truth under critical inspection. The fashionable institutions, according to his speech, may survive for some time because of their reputations, but unless they approach the educational merits offered by their rivals, they will fall into grave danger. All of which sounds well, but means little. Being president of one of our foremost exclusive universities, Mr. Lowell is in a position to make such a statement without laying himself open to accusations of envy and pride, but we wonder if he has any very clear idea...
Significance. The significance of such researches in pure science are usually difficult for the lay mind to appreciate. It is plain, however, that the more people know of the nature of matter, the more they can do with that matter. This truism, Professor Karl Taylor Compton of Princeton (brother of Arthur Holly Compton) elaborated only last month at the Founder's Day exercises of Lehigh University. Said he: "Inventors in this country have always been popular idols. We tell young school children about the inventions of Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney and Thomas Edison. We have been blessed...
...truly no end; but the making of many books is not its only function; and only the shortsighted will deny that the deciphering of ancient tablets is not, in its way, as important as the constant warfare against disease which goes on in the medical school. It it a truism that from the past men may understand the future; it is also a truism, but a pleasant one, that on the empire of a modern university the sun never sets...
...conducted by Harper's Magazine reiterate the lesson taught by the first: young and ambitious authors are likely to be much more successful if they write about something with which they have had some personal contact and concerning which they are at least adequately informed. This, being a literary truism, needs a practical demonstration, such as this contest and others similar, to prove its soundness. Where the rub comes is the editorial insistence on college stories...
Four out of five get it. That is a truism. Yet the fifth merits a certain amount of consideration. Take any ordinary morning in any ordinary classroom at any ordinary university-or Harvard, and see what happens. In the course of the fifty-five minutes or more, or less, the kindly professor tells that famous joke. And, as has been suggested, four out of five...