Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average Technology student is too prone to accept hearsay evidence alone without troubling to ascertain the truth for himself. Very few seem to take into consideration the fact that Harvard has given timely aid to Institute activities on several occasions. An example of this is the recent gift by Harvard of a shell for the use of our crews. To the uninitiated this may seem a trivial matter, but to Institute oarsmen, after being compelled to work for years with inadequate equipment, such a gift appears to be little short of a God-send. And then, again, Harvard has frequently...
...them. And I have had to reply to them, 'I can't give you a lawyer. I have had to put every lawyer on the committees which have to do with strictly legal matters.' And so, while some people are complaining because there are too many lawyers, the real truth is there are not enough lawyers of high ability...
...event, the truth in this case is as I then stated it to the president of the CRIMSON. Some years ago, while discussing with several Boston newspapermen the desirability of numbering football players, the statement was made by one of them that Harvard University as well as every other University wanted all the publicity it could get, and that this publicity had made football what it was, even the Yale game. In reply I said that in my opinion the exaggerated publicity given to football by the news papers was the worst feature about the game and was doing more...
...length of the season, the degree of mechanical perfection of the team, or the gate receipts. If this is so then indeed is any feeling of "friendly rivalry" very superficial, and the best thing to do would be to cut out anything in the form of a contest. The truth of the matter is however that the spirit of rivalry must have been present before there could have been any desire to have contests...
...began by considering the function of a university in regard to the pursuit of truth. He showed that in America, professors are so bound down by teaching and lecturing that they have little time for original research work. He contrasted with the liberal schedule of professors in European of only about three hours, a week a professor's time could be devoted to research; and as a result he might have at the end of the year a book, full of fresh and internist material...