Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After some time I may wish to visit the University. If so I should have no pleasure in meeting friends whom I thought would not be friends if they knew the truth. I should rather have the friendship of one fellow in the University who knew of this act and forgave it than the friendship of the whole University if this friendship was based on ignorance of the facts. I wished to write this letter before leaving Cambridge, when I first saw the demands for my name in the CRIMSON, but there were others to be thought...
...committee went to the source of this information and found that the man who said that he saw "a prominent member of the class of 1898" do the painting denies that there is any truth in the statement. Furthermore, we have as yet found no one that knows who did the painting...
...team played fine ball and were supported throughout the game by perhaps the most effective cheering ever heard on Holmes Field. The spontaneity with which the whole crowd of Harvard men surrounded the Carey Building at the close of the game must have made every one feel the truth of the Harvard spirit...
...evolution, as should our interior affairs. Our colleges must educate more and more men who shall deal with political questions. Our citizens have no adequate idea of the doings of our legislatures. Newspaper reports are poor. A comparison of any report with the Congressional Record will prove the truth of this statement...
...that self-respect or fear will make the offence almost impossible; for whoever cheats will know that he cheats, and will cheat with his eyes open to the result of detection: and my ultimate hope is a higher right for Harvard College to maintain that she stands for truth...