Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This incident, I think, illustrates a sad truth, that until these Freshman hoodlums have a little of their rustic training beaten out of them, Harvard indifference cannot be attained. Would it not be possible for such bumpkins as the Freshman Pajama Night promoters to go to some college where they can obtain more backing for their boobishness than they can here. Mark Howe...
...Queen, she was not a subject of Elizabeth and could not therefore be guilty of treason against her. Her silence was probably immaterial because her enemies were so powerful and numerous and state reasons for her death so strong that she would probably have been executed even had the truth been known...
...work remains to be done after the manner of these brilliant discoveries before all the mists of the past are blown away, and the aboriginal American is seen and understood by the modern world as realistically as he is portrayed in his daily journals and similar repositories of Historical Truth...
...have falsified the sequence and meaning of past events by their lack of scientific method, their reliance on traditional literature and their wilful neglect of contemporary documents and archaeological evidence. Their day, or rather, their night is over; for the literary dilletante cannot face the pure light of historical truth which emanates from this epoch-making report...
...part of it all is that the Times is very near the truth. Even Harvard, which prides itself as being an intellectual institution does very little thinking. All the coarse frivolities of the small college are omitted to be sure, but in their place there is a vast grey void. Harvard has no fence, no skull caps, and no Freshman riots and for that it may be justly thankful, but in abolishing these petty nuisances, it has introduced no corresponding good. Harvard would have a better right to criticize the childishness of other colleges if it had more...