Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Courant says, "The Record stole from our former publisher about everything upon which it could lay its hands. It was only a lingering sentiment of justice, seasoned, perhaps, with a wholesome regard for Connecticut law, that left us in possession of our name." We know nothing as to the truth of the first sentence, but the second displays the most glaring egotism. We may be forced to believe that the Record has robbed the Courant of its type, and possibly of its scissors; but our high regard for that first-named periodical prevents our believing that it ever coveted anything...
...equal. In functional relation to the cosmical order, each is other's superior." This appalling fact should be borne in mind, and we doubt not that our readers will shape their future courses by the light herein afforded. Some of them, however, may be inclined to question the truth of the concluding sentence: "In sufficiency, fulness, simplicity, strength, sweetness, science has no such word as 'Eve.'" If Mr. Pratt wishes to reply, our columns shall be open...
...repetition of a truth is ever excusable, it certainly is when many of the surroundings have a tendency to bury it in forgetfulness or disregard, as they have in the ordinary life of the college student...
THERE must have been something more than the wine-crackers at the bottom of it all, though I shall always maintain that they were very strong. To tell the truth, the Goody did say something the next morning about "thim nasty empty bottles" - "nasty" to her, I fear, because they were empty - and the broken glass trodden into the carpet. And as I think the matter over, I remember that Jones said something about its not being right to allow somebody to go to bed alone; that somebody chased Jones around the room, and finally threw a boot...
...affirmed by some that if a student told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, he would receive a greater penalty for his misconduct in question than if he were guilty of a falsehood and were even detected in it, simply because of his boldness in making the confession of his guilt. Instances seem to bear this statement out. The custom of believing a student's testimony only in case it is damaging to himself we hope will be less sanctioned in the future, and that hereafter he will be placed more on an equality with others...