Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...REPORT that hazing has been renewed at Harvard has recently been widely circulated in the daily papers. A careful investigation has failed to reveal a single case of the sort, however, and we feel that we are justified in absolutely denying the truth of the rumor in question. That college boys play pranks, and that these pranks occasionally leave their traces behind them, is an unalterable fact, well known wherever colleges exist; but that the bullying system, which began with fagging in great public schools, and ended in the scandalous hazing which is said to have existed here...
...feel sure, then, that we shall meet with the approval of all concerned in the matter, when we solicit from any Freshman who has been forced to submit to any indignity whatever a full account of the whole affair, which we engage to publish as soon as its truth is satisfactorily proved...
...world on truth's current glides...
...pretty well understood fact that Harvard has made nothing by the change, and that she would be glad to retreat if such a thing were possible." If we had tried to make a glaring misstatement it would certainly have puzzled us to hit wider of the truth. We not only regard our elective system as one of the most valuable features of Harvard, but we never hear of any such sentiments as the above quoted, except from those who are as ignorant of Harvard's methods and successes as the author of this misstatement...
...students are here taught, - and the distinguished head of our Philosophical Department has often assured us of this, - it becomes of less than vital importance what textbooks are used. But it is of vital importance that the men who study Philosophy should have minds open and receptive to all truth; that every capability of real, worthy enthusiasm should have full development; and that no text-books should be employed which unnecessarily lessen that enthusiasm, whether by the overshadowing vastness of the dry psychological facts there accumulated, or by their adherence to a phraseology that to our modern ears seems stilted...