Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...restless desire for new scenery drove him to America, where he hoped to find his Elysium. How he found it, and his impression of this country, is well shown in his letters home, where he describes, in terms that would be rather humorous were there not a grain of truth in them, the haste and worry of Americans and what he considers their inordinate desire for money...
...Professor Francis G. Peabody conducted services in Appleton Chapel last evening. He took his subject from John 18, 38: Pilate said unto him, What is Truth...
...university preachers have contributed much. A great portion of the students are distinctly identified with religious movements; it cannot be denied that many others do not occupy such a position. There is, however, no sharp dividing line between two such classes. Both are in earnest; both are searchers after truth. Perhaps the students themselves may not have always realized this; but those who of late years have closely studied the student life at Cambridge, have realized the change for the better. It has been a change, we believe, for which the characters of the University preachers have in large measure...
...Truth About Foxy Smith" wants the smoothness of diction of the story which precedes it, although there are several clever touches in the first part of the sketch. The plot has little originality...
...breathing,-who goes a step farther and becomes engaged to her, recognizing his mistake, yet incapable of sufficient will-power and courage to make a clean breast of it and effectually to relieve the entanglement,-who takes the final step and becomes her husband, only telling her the cruel truth, that he does not really love her, after the marriage. It is at this point that we come to the end of the March installment of this extremely well-written story, the conclusion of which will be in the April number...