Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...portraying a single type as perhaps representative of the whole, they have laid themselves open to attack. Everyone does not misuses the Freshman Jubliee, or consider probation normal; and it is my guess that there will be some who will say so. But yet there is sufficient truth in the book, and sufficient discrepancies in the objects of its satire, to warrant its existence...
...session, The Church Congress, the proceedings of which were, by comparison, tame. Bishop Lawrence celebrated Holy Communion. Incense was not perceptible. Dr. Kirsopp Lake, of Harvard, said: "Bible and Church have frequently been wrong and their complete consent will prove in the end to have less power than truth and facts, for these alone are valid, authentic and infallible." No one threw bricks at him. Miracles, divorce, industry, eugenics, creeds, were all quite thoroughly discussed. All present were Protestants, protesting as they chose against whatever untruth or unrighteousness "is, and of a right ought to be, pro-tested...
...which he defended in "The Goose Step", that most American colleges are run under the influence and according to the malignant desires of the capitalistic classes whose representatives sit on various boards of trustees and governors, seems at least in one instance to have contained a certain measure of truth. The Board of Managers of Millikin University, which derives its income from an estate, refused, among other acts of a somewhat arbitrary nature, to renew the contracts of two professors; whereupon the entire student body went out on strike...
...Coontz, which-has just appeared, far from fulfilling Mr. Wilbur's predictions, might very well be called discouraging. While it is a long established custom for military and naval experts to wall and moan over the state of the country's armed forces, there is a dispassionate note of truth in the Commander-in-chief's report that carries conviction...
...have learned the bitter truth...