Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...author of the communication in the CRIMSON Friday morning considers the crew management responsible for the lack of success of the Glee Club concert on Tuesday. The truth of the matter is that the Glee Club have treated the crew very shabbily in not giving the concert before, when more people were in town. The Jamaica Plain and Cambridge concerts, too, drew away from the audience on Tuesday. As to the concert not begin advertised, I happen to know that circulars were sent to all the houses on the Back Bay and notices published in all the daily papers...
...much as we may regret it, moral ideas do not depend on fact but on what should be. So the first service of ethics is the enlarging of our philosophy. Ethics cannot take the place of all philosophy but it can endow us with the great gift of moral truth...
Nowhere is the truth of Professor Wright's candid statement more obvious than at Harvard. There is really no chance here for a student to become thoroughly acquainted with the sum of Greek and Latin literature before graduation. During the first two years, as is right, he is confined to a minute study of a limited number of works with due deference to grammar. But during the last two years, instead of having an opportunity to widen his personal knowledge of Greek plays or of Latin poetry, he is obliged to devote his energies to text criticism and details...
...true of nations in these respects is true of individuals. That which gives character to the individual is what he has in his imagination. And all this is yet more true of an institution like ours. It is sustained for a liberal education and for the ascertainment of truth. If it fails in this it is not liberal, but narrow, and our education is but information...
...Winsor began by dwelling on accuracy in historical statement. We are often deceived by the disguises of truth. She is hidden from us by strange raiments and only sharp eyes and learned research can unmask her. We must have the courage of the moth and let our wings be singed by approaching the light. No historical statement can be final, and it is this very uncertainly that keeps research perennial. The successful historian employs the same talents as the successful merchant, penetration and keen judgment of character. But in history we must never forget how important the personal basis...