Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keep on giving us the real truth in the news but steer clear of that doctrine of "prosperity for everyone forever." God give us more guts and fewer jelly fish...
...high point of the Christmas Scribner's is a critique on Thorstein Veblen by Ernest Sutherland Bates. Mr. Bates has been charmed away from the truth, one feels, by a romantic sympathy for the immigrant Scandinavian, for his racial humiliation by the native Americans of Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is supposed to explain much of Veblen's vitriol as a critic of the economic society in which he lived and of the leisure class which is its characteristic by-product. If it were so, it might explain the vitriol very well, but Mr. Bates has gone no farther than assumption...
...would seem nearer to the truth to assign Veblen's vitriol to clear eyes and a sharp critical talent. More than any other man of the twentieth century, Veblen pierced the syllogized "classical economics" with its ridiculous labor equations and its mumbo jumbo on the credit system. It is through no fault of his that these things persist in the colleges of the nation, for much of his energy was spent in attempting to force them out. Mr. Bates remarks that he was handicapped, in his later years, by a delusion of prophecy that made him see himself...
...every vase or other object to be kept eternally in the exact spot in which she had it before she died. If this was not done, the whole collection was to be taken to Paris, auctioned off, and the proceeds were to go to Harvard University. Now that this truth is out, some Harvard man will call at the Crimson and we shall tell him our further plans for enriching the Bursar's office...
...down until it is actually the six hours now stated. Either of these arrangements would give the scientific student an opportunity both to do his work and indulge in outside activities of one sort or another at present he is the forgotten man of the College in all truth; by taking speedy action, and by the exercise of a little ingenuity, the Departments of Chemistry and Biology should be able to give him such reasonable working hours as he has in Physics courses; if they cannot, they are driven to the other alternative of allowing double credit...