Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta's new home of culture and the arts sits like a gem of truth, bowered in lovely green trees and shrubs, with the gentle rising sweep of lawn in front, on Peachtree street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth. Formerly the High home, it was given to the city, through the art association, by Mrs. Joseph Madison High, to be a perpetual home of art in this southern metropolis and to house the permanent collection which Atlanta will gather together for the inspiration and training of her gifted sons and daughters of the generations yet to come...
...Shall the lawmakers tell us what to think?" he asked. In some states there is a law prohibiting schoolbooks that defame the American conduct in the War of 1812. This invades the individual right to know the truth, and gives rise to false patriotism, and an unfair bias on history. Not only is our thought so regulated, but even such intimate matters as our food and living conditions are controlled by laws on milk and heating of homes. In performing its duties as a government, our government should not become a nursemaid...
...award of the Ph.D. degree, is, in itself, so grand an attack upon the status quo that it is going in any way to deploy the instruction of graduates at the universities into other channels. Yet both are being so widely disseminated, supposedly in the interest of truth, that some sane critique of their real worth is exceedingly necessary...
...must Forego knowledge in order to become a specialist." One is tempted to ask in what profession today the same is not the case. The inductive method has forced specialization upon the university, that and the knowledge that in generalizations of the Marks, Pingree variety are no approach to truth. The leader in college work must know his field, minutae as well as the grander and more sweeping syntheses...
Both of the articles dealt with here have in them that insidious half truth which can make more trouble than all the error possible for any popular periodical to gather in a year. And the half truth is that barrenness can often result from excessive concentration. Such barrenness one finds in successful business men as well as in products of the graduate schools. And the duty of those who have education on their minds as well as in their hearts is to find a method by which the doctorate may be in the truest sense humanized. Such humanization, like...