Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thorndike says he usually doesn't listen to what the player says he usually doesn't list to what the players says about how he feels. "I make muscle and ligament function tests," he declared. "They tell the truth." Has a boy a serious enough injury to make it worse if he continues? is the question he asks himself in case there is doubt about someone staying in the game...
...survey the course of religious development," Dean Matthews said," we cannot help being struck with he progress in religious concepts.... or the existence of the religious impulse. Is it plausible to say that the whole is a vast delusion, that there is nothing in this vast existence of truth and reality...
With cheering and applause an audience of 10,500 that packed the Boston Arena at yesterday afternoon's Communist rally answered Granville Hicks '23, Counselor in American History and Literature, when he asked, "Is it contrary to Harvard's traditions for me to speak the truth as I see it, and to serve mankind in the way that seems to me best...
...have faith in God is the most important thing in the world," Dean Matthews emphatically declared. "God is not only real, He is the real being; the core and basis of the world is spiritual. To realize the supreme claim of truth and righteousness is to be in harmony with the purpose of the world, and this constitutes faith...
...small, white-haired Dean Matthews went on to explain away rationalism. Predicating his remarks with a defense of free thought, he declared that even the rationalist, who would place all faith on his own reason, was subject to the laws of probability, for human reason may not lead to truth,--may be based on false hypotheses. Moreover, some attitude must be taken toward life, for we must live; and of the several alternatives religious faith is by far the most satisfying...