Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perversion of the truth. The English Vaccination Law of 1898 requires a vaccination certificate to he filed with the Registrar of Births within six months of a child's birth, exception being made for "conscientious objectors," who must voice their objections within four months of their child's birth...
...ordinary desires, economic, sexual, social; the desires for power and responsibility, for case and pleasure, for self-expression, for security, for adventure, for popularity. Economics follows up in detail the consequences of men's desire for wealth. Philosophy traces the results of our desire to know ultimate truth. Biology tells us what will happen, if we yield to our urge to understand living matter. So it is with each great branch of study. Each acquaints us with the results of human desire in a particular field. Social ethics compares all these desires and traces their results...
Thus Harvard today has no swimming pool that is worthy of the name. It flounders along in two rain-barrels and a nearby river, while many think that this delinquency is caused by lack of funds or a proper building location. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Athletic Association has adequate finances which it is only too willing to devote to a pool; it has had them for some time. Moreover the plan of constructing a pool on the site of the Hemenway Gymnasium which might have conflicted with a projected chemical laboratory was abandoned in favor...
Phillips Brooks House has seldom before appeared in quite so progressive a light as in its liberal attempt to revitalize its Social Service Department. Realizing that in the criticism that lately has been passed on it, there lay some kind of truth, the members of the committee have started to rebuild their system completely. The fundamental suggestions have already been made in last Friday's conference with the heads of the various settlement houses in Boston. Pervious to that conference, only one side of the matter had been discussed, and that was the side pertaining to the student worker himself...
Harvard continually proselytes, declared a prominent official of the University recently, not to recruit undergraduates, but to obtain the finest possible faculty material. The announcement of the illustrious additions to next year's teaching staff bears out the truth of this statement and gives prominence to President Lowell's belief that, if Harvard is to retain its supremacy, it is essential to wait sometimes several years rather than fill the faculty for a generation with good but not exceptional men. The mills of the gods grind slowly and silently, sometimes too silently, for it is seldom that the University...