Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the article on "Prudent Dynamiters" appeared, the students asserted that same belligerence toward your magazine that they do toward any other foreign meddling with their national affairs; but this seems to have pacified them considerably. The truth so often hurts that I am not sure whether I shall be able to use TIME in my classes next year or not. No one knows anything about China save the Chinese, you know, regardless of whether or not you were born here and lived half your life here, and know the language better than the average Chinese into the bargain...
...over-education" which always arises after such cases as these is totally mistaken. On the contrary it is under-education. And if undergraduates at American colleges are committing suicide because of under-education, it would seem that there was something a trifle wrong with American colleges. Perhaps the truth lies in the fact, as has been suggested in these columns before, that the modern university emphasizes analysis at the expense of synthesis, that we acquire information but no way of life, that in the maze of contradictory facts and theories which we encounter at this time we are offered...
...such a natural and beneficial part of the law of life. The theologian must interpret it in different terms, no less valid. It is an integral problem of modern life, and those who seek its solution in terms of death are at least hungering for a vital truth...
...long discussed and often debated question of the uses and abuses of higher education was recently silhouetted in a vast flood-light of truth from the pen of one of 'America's foremost educators, President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard. President Lowell, in his annual report to the directors of Harvard University, considers the various high points of college and high school education unprejudicedly and in a manner which only one with a scope as is his could attempt. Another vast field for intellectual advancement which is very favorably considered by this eminent savant is that of self-education...
...While official parties are not directly responsible for this newest utterance, it does show that they should exercise better supervision and keep such articles from print. From the outside, it seems that Princeton is being made he "goat" at the expense of Harvard. If there is a bit of truth in these clams, for the sake of decency, let it come out through the proper official spokesmen and thus settle the matter once and for all while it is fresh in the mind of the public...