Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...confusion and strife Dante lifted up his voice, as one crying in the wilderness, preaching peace. His treatise De Monarchia is not the dry product of the understanding, but the living, inmost thought of a man, whose one object is the welfare of his fellowmen. He believed that truth must be spoken at all hazards, and this work was written at the risk of offending the most powerful persons in Florence. Whether as poet or philosopher or prophet, Dante's one strong purpose always remained unchanged. No servant of men ever gave himself to their service with more devotion...
After a man has found salvation, life becomes a blessing to family and fellowmen; he is then ready for life or for death, and in death he finds truth and eternal life...
...wish to protest against such crybaby language from a Harvard graduate. The statement is not true, and even if it were, whining about it would only make people doubt its truth. Such statements, we venture to say, misrepresent the sentiment of the University, and the publication of them will give the University a very unenviable and undeserved reputation...
...Christianity enjoins upon us a broad and deep intellectual culture. The old idea was that the true faith could only be preserved by the suppression of free thought, but we find Christ Himself reasoning with men and asking them their opinions. In these days, as always, every seeker after truth is following Christ's teaching. Our colleges and universities have been founded by Christian men for the advancement of Christianity, and built up with Christian toil and sacrifice...
...Allow me space for a brief contradiction of the report on the first page of this morning's 'Advertiser,' headed "Harvard Senate," in which there is not a word of truth save and except the names of the students and the information that they are prominent in college...