Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imposed on its personnel, both faculty and undergraduate, an oath that it will "strive for self-knowledge, self-reverence, and self-control." Searching for precedent, classicists discovered that a similar oath was exacted from the Athenian youth upon his entrance to manhood and civic life; the oath proceeds, "truth, courtesy, cheerful cooperation, and loyalty to Rollins...
...course, there are a number of factors which make it necessary to discount the results of this poll as an indicator for the national elections. Students at Harvard are on the whole of the conservative monied class; there may be some truth in the popular superstition that youth is naturally conservative, judging from the poll results. Massachusetts is, moreover, concededly Republican this year. With the exception of the Law School, CRIMSON polls did not forecast the national results accurately...
...have read with interest your magazine since becoming a subscriber, a splendid periodical for busy folk. But I take serious exception to the article on Kingfish Long. Give us the truth about politics but please don't quote the politician when he becomes sacrilegious...
Duranty, was that it "brought forth three resolutions to skip like mice across the pages of the newspaper Pravda" (Truth). The three resolutions "contain nothing new. . . . The fundamental stumbling block to Soviet progress today is the food shortage of which the resolutions say nothing. The shortage is causing neither famine nor hunger but it is a universal shortage...
...daughter should go to college. You could then easily show her that the number of colleges . . . that are likely to secure any of these benefits . . . can be counted on the fingers of one hand and are full already yet. Tell her the truth. The outlook for the collegian is poorer than...