Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theft of another's peace of mind, love, and husband are outside the jurisdiction of the law. Thinking that his audience would more readily accept this thesis if it was at first hidden, then dressed up as new, and finally revealed in its true aspect as a grenerally acknowledged truth, Shipman has lifted his moral into the end of the third act as sort of a roof under which he builds the rest of the play. His construction is laborious and often times forces him to the 'cut and fill' method of work that he may make his material last...
...that their own was a one man government. But they have seen two presidents break under the mass of administrative routine heaped upon them. President Coolidge, although freed of a small amount of this routine, finds time outside his many duties only for a short morning walk. The simple truth seems to be that an administrative organization designed to direct the government of two million people now directs, without any change of design, the government of a population fifty times this size. The death of this great British statesman may serve to point a lesson not only...
College students to the contrary, there is much truth in the argument. Yet how is it to be reoonelled with the undoubted fact that many students yearn to get through and relax in an eight-hour day? One explanation of the anomaly might be that it is human nature to feel abused under any circumstances. But a better explanation appears to spring from the emphasis on "sentenced". It is generally true that the undergraduate does not labor hard enough at college. But he will not do otherwise until the idea that any labor on courses comes in the nature...
...little consequence which of the two arguments is nearer the truth. There is a third explanation which is more appealing than either of the others, for it is based not on hypotheses put on statistics. The subects which, together with English, have gained greatest ground during the past three years are almost invariably cultural--History, History and Literature, Fine Arts, the Classics. On the other hand such more exact fields of concentration as Mathematics, Biology, and Geology, not to speak of Engineering Sciences, have increased in popularity little if at all. So runs the argument...
...institution will have a chance to show what it can do when confronted by a danger like this. Indeed, the University authorities well might search their hearts carefully to find out how it happens that even one of the young men whom they supposed to be teaching reason and truth should have been led astray by such vicious and absurd arguments as the Ku Klux Klan has been presenting to them. Only in the case of the greenest of Freshmen could such a thing be possible, if Harvard training effects its designed ends...