Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the fifty second of the series and brings joy to the hearts of those who have for so long respected the opinions of Joe Forecast '26. For that redoubtable oracle has again crashed through with she truth and nothing but by predicting even such a victory. And in future many more patrons of the diamond sport will take his words to heart, for he has brought no small change into the pockets of those who have believed...
...tempted to agree definitely with Professor Mussey whose language may at times favor the sentimental and the inspirational, but whose thought is fundamentally sound in that it presents a truth which is at the basis of much of the difficulty in modern education: the faculties often are too blinded by the masses with which industrial success has flooded the college to remember that those who really delight in learning and in culture, who can get at the root of things, system or no system, are just as much a part of the college world as they ever were...
...further in a similar line and arrive at a truth concerning contemporary literature of the journalistic breed: the tabloid idea is misrepresenting everything. In their desire for the graphic, the colorful, the papers are forgetting the approximation of the truth which is possible of their attainment. Heckled by moving pictures and novels the colleges are yet able to maintain their own self respect. But it is time for a period of temporary repose when the college world can for the nonce find that the world outside expects other than a circus parade every time that two undergraduates leave their college...
...Actors' Theatre has done amazingly well by him this time and the results are most diverting. Lucille Watson, Patricia Collinge, Reginald Owen, Vernon Steele and Dudley Digges were shrewd selections for the various delicately incisive roles. Strangely enough even the epigrams seem to have survived sturdily-"The truth is rarely pure and never simple"-"Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others"-"Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel quite certain they mean something else."-"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone...
...this is not humor, it is truth. No matter what that anachronistic old bird of prey, the Ibis, may scream this is truth, real honest to Crime truth. I have no desire to be humorous when I see how little it takes to maintain such a tradition. Take the Silent Man at Washington. He is very humorous. But I would rather be tight than to be president. There is some excuse for being tight...