Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected to decline to testify on the grounds that they might incriminate themselves. The sons-in-law of Mr. Fall were also summoned. At least one of them, Milton T. Everhart, is expected to make a like plea; but the Government counsel, delving industriously for the long-hidden truth, hope to force him to testify, believing that he could tell a damning tale...
...emphatic statement of Professor A. G. McAdie '84, when questioned last night concerning the recent demands which have been made by a Mr. J. Henry Smythe Jr., of New York, that an investigation be made by the University, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences, as to the truth of the famous "kite flying" experiment of Benjamin Franklin. The demand was made in a letter to the University, which charged Professor McAdie with detracting from Franklin's name by calling the kite incident "a myth," and demanded that committees be formed to determine the truth of the charge...
...defenders of controversial hypotheses will look to the President and Fellows as the only truthful authority to settle their disputes. A committee on the truth of ancient and modern theories will have to be formed. There will spring up in all parts of the world societies for the prevention of slander on Isaac Newton, or Keppler. University Hall will be flooded by letters demanding the truth about the "apple hypothesis of the discovery of gravity" or research on the theory that each star has its little guardian angel pushing it through space. Others will ask for proof that Pythagoras first...
...modern division of the committee will have somewhat different work. It will discuss the tale of the cherry tree as the essence of truth. At the end of each year they will publish a supplement to Bartlett's "Familiar Annotations" to set forth the statistics of the birth-rate, past, present, and future, in relation to P. T. Barnum's theory that "there's one born every minute." And it will provide, it is hoped, a directory of originators of Volstead jokes, that such hardened criminals may be stalked down and slaughtered by a too patient public...
Does not such highly competitive machinery defeat at one stroke the real purpose of a higher institution of learning? Higher institutions of learning have lived through long ages, seen nations rise and fall, governments come and go in their real purpose to follow up truth. It does not seem to me that any such machinery carries torth the torch of truth on its way through the life of an individual in the life of society as a whole - can any business managership or other such goals so much sought do other than tend to lead one into narrowness from...