Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...central symbol which makes the heart leap up and understand Pittsburgh. . . . The building and its contents will keep vivid the lives of those who have done good work for Pittsburgh; who, to some memorable degree, have produced music, for example, or built up industry, or extended our knowledge of truth, or interpreted the use and beauty of life or served in matters of government. . . . We must rise to the-highest attainable record. Nothing else is good enough...
...American Public School is the favorite playground of the propagandist. With the advent of Education Week the dismal truth of this platitude becomes painfully apparent. No tendencies new to the United States underlie the pronouncement of the American Legion that it will attempt to instill Americanism into the public schools nor the program of the American Federation of Labor to secure the representation of Labor to secure the representation of Labor's point of view in classrooms and textbooks. Such pronouncements and programs have frequently been advocated in the past. They should not be condemned entirely...
...Public School is a place for training the mind to make its own decision on any problems that may arise and not for imposing upon the mind the decisions of others. This ideal of intellectual freedom is unattainable in a world where everyone is convinced of the absolute truth of all his own beliefs, but the ideal should be kept in sight, not cast lightly away...
...importance and dignity of their membership in that ancient and honorable institution of Trial by Jury; to lay before them the duties, privileges and prerogatives of a juror, to open their minds to the fallacies of human testimony, the whys and wherefores of intentional perjury, the methods by which truth can be distinguished from falsehood and exaggerations can be reduced to their proper proportions...
...talk to the University Law Society last night at Phillips Brooks House Judge Irving Lehman gave some advice to lawyers on how to win the feelings of the jury. According to Judge Lehman the lawyer who can convince the jury of his own endeavor to get at the truth has won half the battle. He also said that the lawyer who appeals to the passions or sympathies of the jury is taking a very dangerous risk of antagonizing them, because, he said, the juries of today are mostly honest men who are seeking after the truth and they feel that...