Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...philanthropist, and a like sum from Cleveland H. Dodge, also a well known philanthropist, a Democrat. The next largest subscription, $5,000, was made by John H. Clarke, a Democrat, and the balance was made up by individual subscriptions ranging from $1 to $2,000. This is ' the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth...
...British answer refused a conference with the Soviet Government to discuss the truth of the propaganda charges and counter charges and reciprocity in regard to compensation for British and Russians killed. The British Government declared all charges were proved...
During the day he will be reminded of his duties to Harvard and the world, of his opportunities and advantages. He will be exhorted to a finer life, informed that the Spirit of Youth will conquer, that the comradeship of truth and wisdom are his light in the darkness. He will go to his room in the late evening and tell over the same old stories, sleep as stolidly as usual, and go down to Soldiers Field the next afternoon to cheer the baseball team like an ordinary undergraduate. But it will have been a great Class Day, the greatest...
...rather a pitiful truth that the American college man reaches his apogee in the humanities in his senior year. From that point on he declines so rapidly that five years out he cannot talk intelligently with the average junior: ten years out with the average freshman: while twenty five years out, he is back again in the elementary grade. He is a Bachelor of Arts only by courtesy, and strictly speaking, no more entitled to hold a degree than before he entered college, however much law or medicine or business he may know. And the chances are that at about...
...been said by critics of the American Federation of Labor that it holds aloof from politics and that this is a serious mistake. Those who have taken occasion to observe the facts understand the truth, which is that American labor is decidedly active in politics, that it has been a tremendous force in American political life but that it refrains from forming partisan political affiliations...