Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first place I did not undertake to prove the truth of my statement, but merely called attention to a fact that is recognized as true by almost every man with whom I have talked. I have not the slightest desire to convince any one who has not agreed with me from the first...
...would urge upon you the necessity of appointing proper persons to lead the cheering in the different sections. The statement has at times been made, and perhaps with truth, that Harvard men do not support their teams as they should; that they cannot be made to cheer. Last Saturday, however, I was treated to a novel and certainly not agreeable side of the question: A body of Harvard men, comprising one whole section, not only willing but anxious to cheer, and repeatedly asking to be led, and the usher, apparently appointed for the purpose, either afraid or to lazy...
Christ came as the witness of the truth, and His was the life of noble selfsacrifice. He trampled sin to death without deigning to look down on it and yet His authority was always gently asserted to His followers, although their plodding stupidity must have been a continual trial to Him. If we but know Christ for what He is we can not help but acknowledge Him in our hearts. We cannot help but recognize His fortitude and courage in saying "Follow Me." No even death could thwart His purpose. The highest place left for a man today is behind...
...Harvard Religious Unioin is oranized to unite students of the University in a mutual interchange of religious thought and a common search for religious truth. It does not infringe on the province of the other religious societies. It relizes on the contrary, their essential importance. Yet it believes that there are many students who, though seriously concerned with religious thought and aims, do not feel themselves at home in the Evangelical Societies...
...injurious to Harvard were they suffered to pass unnoticed. Were it not to guard against possible credence on the part of those as entirely ignorant of Harvard life as the writer in the Illustrated American, it would be unnecessary to say that there is no approach to the truth in any statement we find there, save in that which tells that Harvard stands beyond the River Charles, looking at Bunker Hill and Boston...