Word: truthfully
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Granted, however, that such men are not representative, but rather the results of an over-ripe culture, there are many men of education, true, high-minded and of Christian ideals, who believe that Christ and His church are at the basis of our civilization, who sympathize with Christian truth, who feel that ideally the church is the stronghold of the highest types of character, but who do not practically turn hand, voice or life to the sustaining of the Christian church of today...
...over, spends some, and leaves the rest, without having felt the uplifting spirit that Christ reveals to us. One can speak of this with greater confidence in the shadow of Harvard, for by her charter and traditions the church stands with open face and clean eye towards the truth...
...founders of this college had their deep convictions; much of their theology is not our theology, but they had such confidence in Christ as the truth and in his church as the interpreter and friend of truth that they bade this college go on in the search for the truth, knowing that rightly conceived, every discovery of truth in every department of Knowledge would lead to the glory of Christ and his church...
...have sometimes tried to set the final interpretation of Christian Truth in one or another century, in the day of Athanasius or Luther or Calvin and to close the interpretation of the scriptures then. Our fathers in the college seal laid the Bible wide open to the light of the all centuries and across it wrote the legend 'Veritas...
...Truth is the best of thought and life here. Whatever faults Harvard may have, she is sensitive to the spirit of truth. With patient, unflagging devotion and the keenest enthusiasm the student reaches out for the truth...