Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mean to accuse Yale professors of repeatedly making their choices on the basis of personal agreement or disagreement. Yet with a system such as Yale's, the tendency is inescapable, as cases, not too isolated, show. That there is considerable truth in what we say will be demonstrated by the fact that no instructors will venture to endorse our stand, much as they might like to. As long as the system remains, the menace of inbreeding and intellectual stagnation and repression is ever present...
...want something in appeal to the moiling masses. It would be really a pity if Day Lewis and his colleagues turn out to be Walt Whitmans, rejected by the people whom they would serve. For one suspects that they have forgotten (or perhaps they have never known) the hard truth, "Nothing is further from the common people than the corrupt desire--to be common people," if one may amend Mr. Santayana's dictum...
...very word 'step' is extremely distasteful. . . . The truth is that no step has been taken up to now. And, owing to Italo-Franco-British relations, it is most probable that there will not be any, even in the future...
John Reed's portrait now hanging in Adams House in another testimonial that Harvard is ready to house any of her sons who show themselves to have honorably lived up to her standards of truth and courage and devotion.. This principle war firmly and happily established when the names of the graduates who died fighting on the side of the central powers in the World War were placed in the Memorial Church alongside of those who fought for the allies...
...flows in the laboratory and the stacks. With some instructors this is true. But as a substitute for an intelligent personal estimate of each individual by his fellow workers, this principle can only end in failure. Four out of five men in every sciences department will testify to the truth of this canker--if he is sure that he will not be quoted by name to the "higher-ups." It has proved to be academic suicide to those with the courage to state their views openly...