Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suspect they will never produce an idealistic philosophy like that of Pleto in ancient times, or speculative systems like these of Spinoza, Leibnity, and Hegel in modern times. The circumstance that Emerson is an American may seem to contradict this, but then Emerson, while he opens glimpses of truth, is not a philosopher; his thoughts are like strung fearls, without system and without connection. On the other hand, the Americans believe that there are things to be known, to be prized and secured, and will never look approvingly on an agnesticism which declares that knowledge is unattainable. The American philosophy...
...thus absolutely lay down the philosophy which should be the guide of an American. Simply because a man is an American he should take up one line of thought in preference to another seems to indicate an amount of narrowness that is extraordinary. Philosophy aims at the truth, and it is the truth that the philosophic student wants. He does not want the philosophy that may best suite the nature of his country. Dr. McCosh cites the rule of Kaut in Germany, Des Cartes in France, Reid in Scotland, etc., as examples of this nationalistic tendency of philosophy. A German...
...believe that, if there is any truth in the charge that a college education does not fit a man for active business life, it is because college men, as students of the past, are too apt to think that the past is everything, and the present nothing, and so find when they have graduated that there are a good many things of practical, every day importance which they have yet to learn. To those of us who intend to make journalism our life work, a course in contemporaneous history would be of inestimable benefit, and as we are neither...
Again the railroads and towns people have been interviewed, and for another five years the inter-collegiate races take place at New London. The thrifty dwellers in the "nutmeg" town know on which side their bread is buttered, for in truth it is buttered on both sides. Whichever crew wins, pocket-books are opened, money is scattered broadcast, and revelry rules the town, at laast, once in the year. Before the races there are to be found both Harvard and Yale peanuts and sandwiches but afterwards only one kind remains in stock, and that kind is sure to be well...
...facilities and methods the broader will be the scholarship evolved. A university in contra-distinction to a collegiate education will be the education of the next generation. Some schools close their eyes to the fact and refuse to believe it. Certain decay awaits such. Other colleges acknowledge the truth and advance to meet it. Princeton is a college which has long been one of the foremost colleges of the land; we trust that it will soon be justly termed one of the leading universities of our country...