Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Francke calls attention to the German Private docent wesen, an institution which is perhaps the most destructive of German scholarship. The private docent is a young man who has just won his doctorate, who has convinced the faculty of a German university that he is an independent searcher after truth. He is at once admitted to the same kind of teaching as the oldest members of the faculty, but assumes only self-imposed obligations. He receives no remuneration, and many of his duties are far from enviable; yet the proportion of private docenten to the total number of the university...
...books on America Arnold criticized American society without knowing it, and while he often told the truth, he seldom told the whole truth...
There is no truth in the statement that Harvard will challenge Princeton to a series of games, but if Princeton challenges Harvard, Harvard will very probably accept...
...base the above argument on the figures in the Advocate. Any one may satisfy himself of its truth in five minutes. It is quite true that the college proper has gained only 13 western men in the past year and has not been gaining as fast as Yale in this respect for some time, but I argue that there is nothing in the least alarming in this fact, because the facts for a few years show nothing of the tendency of the college...
...stagnation must be checked if she is to hold her own; in other words it must be recognized, analyzed, and the remedy pointed out. The main trouble-and this is the only justification for so frank an exposure as the two comparisons in question-is perfectly obvious. The truth about Harvard is not sufficiently known outside. Our graduates are not so active, so loyal, as those of the rival by whom we instinctively measure ourselves. And above all, the Harvard clubs, which should be centers for enthusiastic missionary work, have too often come to mean nothing more than a dinner...