Word: truisms
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...less permanent a part of the Princeton travelling equipment than the Tiger water bottles. Plays that have ruffled the grass only behind high board fences of New Jersey are all ready to be revealed to a crowded Stadium this afternoon. And of no other team is the truism so true that predictions based on previous scores are like houses built upon sands...
...Paul's, London, the Earl of Crawford unveiled as a memorial to John Singer Sargent a bronze crucifix The Redemption-executed by that painter 20 years ago. "We commonly say," said the Earl, "that every man's work is his own monument. What is metaphorically a truism is here an actual fact...
...assign credit to universal agitation or a series of remarkable leaders. So one cannot do better than to forget both and remember that all the issues were social and economic protests indebted to politics neither for existence or importance. There could be hardly more pictorial presentation of the truism that when society proposes, the politician has no choice but to dispose. He may sit on the lid as cartoonists so often picture him, or he may let the cat prematurely out of the bag in the metaphor of conservatives; but government will ultimately reckon with all outstanding social evils...
...University baseball team plays the same brand of ball that it put on at Princeton on Wednesday, Soldiers Field will see in action a nine that is better in every respect than any Crimson outfit in recent years. As goes the pitcher, so goes the team is almost a truism in baseball, but thought Barbee is not scheduled to see action today against the Brown team, either Cutts or Booth can supply the necessary poise to make the rest of the Harvard nine look good...
...picturesque rebirth. The colleges, he asserts "heap knowledge upon a student like hay" and then say "stack it yourself." This complaint is nothing but the platitude, dear to all educational declaimers, that method is more essential than fact, reason than memory. Still admitting the great age of this truism, one cannot but be glad of an occasional restatement to refresh an ideal...