Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Medical School, and Professor of Social Ethics in the College, will be given this evening at 8 o'clock in Huntington Hall Rogers Building, 491 Boylston street, Boston. The general subject of Dr. Cabot's lecture is "Veracity and Its Enemies." He will speak tonight on "Truth and Falsehood in Art and in Medicine...
...Shidehara, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, in his article published in our Daily, lays forth what purports to be Japan's policy in the Far East. We deem that it is of great importance that the American public should know the truth about the whole situation. Broad generalizations help us but little; We must resort to concrete facts. With this principle in mind, let us, examine some of the Ambassador's statements...
...truth of the matter is that we are intolerant. As individuals, as groups, and as a College, we are unwilling to appreciate, and perhaps even to understand, the opinions of others with whom we are out of sympathy. Blinded to our own faults, we pride ourselves that we are not as others--whom we variously describe as "wet" or "aesthetic" or with even harsher epithets. We are intolerant, and intolerance is the concomitant of conceit...
...citizens. Seemingly insignificant incidents like these make for human progress far more than big organizations or even the work of statesmen. William James has the right idea about progress when he wrote: "I am against all big successes and big results: and in favor of the eternal forces of truth which always work in the individual and immediately unsuccessful way--underdogs always, till history comes, after they are long dead, and puts them...
...been made clear; but it brings to mind a remark sometimes heard among Yale men, to the effect that Yale trains for citizenship while Harvard trains for scholarship. No doubt this statement is intended somewhat as a slur, and our first impulse is to deny its truth. But second thought suggests that perhaps it is more complimentary than was intended. The question is, simply, What do we mean by citizenship...