Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever may be the truth of the other charges against him, no one can accuse Candidate Robart of lacking a sense of humor. The sound truck which states that he should be elected sheriff yesterday went through the square playing "I Never Had A Chance...
...have brought such questions into the limelight is greatly to the credit of Mr. Chase. It is valuable and refreshing to hear such frank criticism of the University, which possesses so many elements of truth. Cortainly, Mr. Conant and his advisors will do well to consider them carefully...
...number as a whole does leave one pretty clear impression. The writers are, in various degrees of intensity, all espousing a Cause, all embracing a Truth, all anxious to rescue their fellows from aimlessness and unbelief. They would probably all agree that Liberalism Is Bankrupt (though here I may be doing them too much injustice). At any rate, what Mr. Chase calls "yesterday's scientific truth" rouses them to no enthusiasm. Whether this yearning for humanism, salvation, discipline, the Perfect State, social duty, practical reason, a faith that can move mountains, Wisdom, and the rest is a sign of youth...
...great many of the statements in Mr. Nittle's communication printed in last Saturday's CRIMSON. One statement in particular, however, irked me because of its falsification of the context of my communication printed in last Friday's CRIMSON. He states: ". . . attempt to apply this sacred idea of eternal Truth in defense of bankers and such . . ." Was not the whole point in my letter that the New Deal is in part an attempt to give Big Business an even greater opportunity to dominate the country...
When Mr. Nittle states that "The most that we can hope for from any government is a compromise with Truth," I agree with him. My point is simply that that government is best which compromises least with Truth. If Mr. Nittle thinks that the New Deal is the best compromise let him support it, I don't, and I shall not support it. But Mr. Nittle should confine his criticism of my communication to statements made therelu. This he did not do. V. H. Kramer...