Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From these reports it would seem that Roman idealism attracts the Syracusans. Indeed, it is not strange that an institution of learning which starts with an a priori preconception of truth should extend hearty welcome to Papini. "The massive brain and eagle eye" of the Methodist Church presides over the destinies of young Syracuse, and brings it up in the way it should go. Not only does this tend to promote among undergraduates that state of mind called "Fundamentalism", but also to attract embryonic Fundamentalists to its sympathetic bosom...
...that attitude. False opinions of education as a "pouring-in process" are likely to be rudely shaken by the November examinations. And by the Mid-Year period they must have begun to see that education--at least the Harvard brand of it--tries to stimulate active, critical research for truth. To fail to see it is to run serious danger of terminating one's academic career...
...opposed are these conceptions of education that it is almost a general truth that religiously endowed universities can rarely see eye to eye with those not so endowed. Syracuse need not be surprised, therefore, if Harvard tuns an indifferent back upon Papini. Harvard's reaction to the entire book does not differ greatly from its rejection of Papini's major premise as stated in the introduction, that "He who accepts the four gospels must accept the four gospels must accept them wholly, entire, syllable by syllable, or else reject them from the first to the last and say: 'We know...
Another American doctor is reported to have discovered a truth serum, scopolamin-apomorphia, whose use makes it impossible to lie or cheat. Whether or no, the truth will out. Both of these discoveries point the same way. Gamaliel Bradford sees the end when he writes...
...Democratic Party was defended by William Exton '26, one of the three University representatives who attended the conference. He replied to Miss McElhinney by declaring that the Republican tariff favored "privileged classes". "This sounds like the old Democratic stuff", said Exton, "but it's the truth and can be proven". He ridiculed the Republican presentation of Coolidge as the "strong, silent man of the White House...