Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bringing up the case of the man who prefers to spend all his hours in Widener, Mr. Jones questions the advisability of Harvard's 'athletics for all' policy, and, even deeper, the advisability of athletics in college at all. One must admit the truth of Mr. Jones' point that what fame Harvard may have has come through its intellectual preeminence. One might ask Mr. Jones, however, if the fame of the college, rather than the happiness of the men it educates, is the true goal it should strive...
...usually accept my copy of TIME as being very close to the truth. It is surprising, therefore, to read in the Manitoba Free Press that the man you mention as a masseur in the late King George V's funeral is Constantin Cotalan, a member of the highest Rumanian military order of "Mihai Viteazul...
...funeral was next held for "Premier Okada," who ventured out and actually attended it, masquerading as his brother-in-law, "Colonel Matsuo." The corpse was reverently interred, and the only thing which might have given the show away was that the Emperor, who by this time knew the amazing truth, did not send the customary condolences and imperial presents for the Dead. This omission went unnoticed...
...professor's right to teach what he thinks, but the oath concerns the student almost as vitally as the instructor. No one has sufficiently taken the side of the man who pays for an education in order to learn about the world as it is, and not the adulterated truth as political parties may conceive it. Because it shackles the minds of the faculty, an oath law lessens the value of college training...
...teacher's "duty is to teach the truth as he sees...