Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Science, art, and culture are not and cannot be purely national. All learning is witness to the truth that above all nations is humanity...
...inferences and insinuations and illogical in its reasonings and conclusions. You apparently meant to have your readers infer that I wrote an article for the Bulletin for the purpose of "urging the need" (whatever that may mean) of enlarging the Stadium or building a new one, the truth being that my article was written to describe the distribution of seats for the Yale game, and to explain the problem involved, and concluded with a brief statement of facts bearing on what the student body and the graduates might expect in the future, unless more seats should be provided...
...insinuate that I am willing to sacrifice the interest of general athletics for all in order to secure more seats for the football games. The truth is the exact opposite of this. The policy I have followed in this respect, as expressed in a written report to the Committee on Athletics last winter, has been and is to organize and promote play, particularly in the form of competitive sport, for all members of the University; to provide as rapidly as possible opportunities for everybody to take part in sports of all sorts; and to make these opportunities sufficiently attractive...
That was great; good stuff, and new too; what other paper had the courage to tell the truth about Alexandra? Since the readers of the News think, as they read, by pictures, a remarkable tableau rose in their minds: They saw the Dowager Queen in her last moments-a bejeweled crone lifting her glass for the last time in a toast, perhaps to the physicians who had tended her. . . . "Good old sport!" they murmured...
...What is the greatest benefit of Harvard education at its best?" If one were asked this question, perhaps the truest answer would be: "The awakening of the critical spirit." To arouse this critical spirit in young minds which look upon truth as something fixed and established to be handed down from above by "those who know" and taken on faith; to change a student's mental attitude from one of receptivity to critical activity--these are among the benefits conferred by lectures of the type which at Harvard are common, though, to be sure, not universal...