Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special focus is on the use made of the press. The average man forms his impressions of world affairs largely from the columns of his daily newspaper. What assurance is there that these columns portray the truth? In fully half the countries of the globe, the news was probably gathered by local news agencies (governmentally-controlled) and turned over to the American press representative. He also has access, in some cases, to an official press bureau of the government, and to a government-inspired or-controlled local press. What material he assembles perhaps then must run the gauntlet...
...Samarra, has employed this technical device to explain the temperament of his hero, Julien English. And here is Victoria Lincoln, following along in what is, by now, a well worn path. Her novel would have suffered little by the omission of Vergil Harris' reveries. I do not contest the truth of the method. I merely suggest that it is not universal outside of novels, and that it is becoming a little shopworn...
...quibble over the question whether John Harvard was entitled to be called the Founder of Harvard College seems to me one of the least profitable. The destruction of myths is a legitimate sport, but its only justification is the establishment of truth in place of error. The facts as to John Harvard's relation to the founding of the College are not at all in dispute nor can it, be said that the statue in front of University Hall does any violence to them. The essential facts are these...
...interested in Dr. Koch's cancer cure, and that I have promised to aid in having a demonstration of Dr. Koch's cancer serum made on 1,000 cancer sufferers? These statements are entirely without foundation, and whoever is propagating them is doing gross violence to the truth...
...steps be taken to alleviate the situation they describe, or it should be shown up as false and be dismissed once and for all. To start with, let them read over Mr. Donham's letter again, if mine is too long for them. Let them remember that this contains truth gained from first-hand observation, personal contacts, and that word which means so little to them, "experience." Let them consider well if their original statements were not gathered from erroneous newspaper articles, remarks of disgrunted graduates and third hand stories, coupled with their own prejudiced opinions. If this...