Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...because their is growing a feeling among many, even cultivated people, that a university can be created without a history, that large funds and wise management may accomplish for a university in a few years all that centuries of wise management can do. That there is an element of truth in this, we all agree. That certain studies and scientific researches are not dependent upon historic surroundings and a rich atmosphere of culture is true. But if a university has for its work also the development of the whole man, growth in culture and the encouragement of the humanities, then...
...casual reference to a gift of $60,000 for Harvard from the Hon. Seth Low, president of Columbia college. The gift, it was said, was to be used for scholarships. Up to a late hour last night no official information had been received on the subject, but the truth of the matter will undoubtedly be made known today...
...steadily refrained from complicating the situation by any recriminations or statements except by publishing a denial on the part of the officials of the Springfield game of the truth of the charges which reflected not only on the Yale team but the good name of our university itself...
...played fully up to the hopes of the College, is far from excusing the neglect with which it has so far met. Students show themselves much too willing to credit rumors of the weakness of the nine; and rumor in this case, as usual, is in exaggeration of the truth. This, however, is from the point. We do not wish to urge attendance at the games as we might, on the grounds that the merits of the players have been misrepresented. What we wish is to insist on the point of honor which it should be with students to give...
...words are often used with very little distinction, but the underlying idea is that the boy at an early age begins to enjoy the privileges and to be credited with certain of the powers of a man, and so becomes decidedly active in shaping his own destiny. There is truth in these statements, but it needs all the American's love of self-sufficiency, and a little thoughtlessness besides, to accept that truth as an effective plea for the boarding school...