Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very unfortunate that Bishop Root, in his recent addresses, has very much misrepresented conditions in China. One would suppose that missionary education is the predominant factor that is determining the eventual outcome of Chinese educational and political developments. Nothing, in fact, is farther from the truth. The Chinese people are, on the whole, broadminded enough to permit missionary activities in educational work; but they always see to it that these activities are kept within bounds. As soon as the missionaries go beyond the limits, we grow impatient with them; and that is why, only a few months...
Persons anxious to condemn the younger generation should remember that the worst of a thing, like an excrescence, is always the most evident while what is truly of worth is silent and unseen. When people who engage in such criticism realize this truth there will be less indiscriminate condemnation. ADRIEN GAMBET '25 October...
...others. Coming now a little closer to it, I hope to find anew the inspiration which Harvard always gives, and to do what I can to keep before those who may come to it, out of the group to which I am directly related, its unflinching love of truth, its courage in duty, and its continuous aspiration to reach out for the best in both thought and character. There is a great tradition which belongs to every son of Harvard. It is good to help in any smallest way to keep that tradition bright for those who shall come after...
...worst, no one of the famous "Fathers" can be so misunderstood in the present as he was by his opponents in his own time. History and biography, incorrect, partial, prejudiced as they may be, are the invisible and inutile Truth compared with the illusions and delusions, the frantically swallowed calumnies and legends and lies that are the average contemporary judgment, by his adversaries, of a public man. New documents, new lights are often accessible to posterity, which ought to be able to contemplate with a calmer eye those old animosities. Why shouldn't the men before 1800 be painted...
...letters, speaks of Lord Byron's latest "flash poem", much as Barrie, for example, might speak of Fitzgerald; yet the flash poems of Byron are deep philosophic treatises compared with Fitzgerald's outbursts. Not that every story should be expected to bear its moral or illumine its great Truth...Heaven for-fend!; but certainly something more than the surface flush of artificial fever is to be looked for, in one who pretends to such a reputation as does the author of the "Tales". In one way, it is true, Fitzgerald is not entirely to blame: he is essentially the product...