Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the college editors, heads of student councils, and other representative undergraduates to discuss the causes and truth of these charges. I would like to see similar meetings several times a year to discuss means of closer co-operation between the two universities. They would discuss in addition to athletics plans for co-operation between the CRIMSON and the Princetonian, between Phillips Brooks House and the Philadelphia Society...
...Harvard's seal also includes a subsidiary and all but illegible motto, "For Christ and the Church." The founders of Harvard never supposed that the interests of Christ, the Church, and Truth could for a moment come into conflict. When the first rudiments of settlement had been established in Massachusetts, says a document of 1612, the next concern...
...Harvard--what was to become the Unitarian movement got the upper hand in control of the university. In the struggles of religious liberalism against orthodoxy that enlivened the beginnings of the nineteenth century the "Christ at Eclesiee" part of the motto was removed. Harvard was out for the truth no matter where...
Nearly half a century later, in the administration of President Edward Everett, it was restored, and has been there ever since. It was once more possible to be for truth and the Church simultaneously. The Church had changed, in New England at any rate; and men's attitudes toward it, at Harvard, had changed accordingly. Since then the religious sentiments of Harvard has tended toward loyalty to the kind of church that is not afraid with any amazement, regardless of the discoveries that may be made in the search for truth...
...peoples then why worry. Life under the present bourgeois regime--and granted that it is bourgeois sometimes to the point of inanity--is sweet; and life under any regime is short--so why not make merry in one's own uncouth way? The intelligentsia phantom group, will shriek the truth of the Drifter's remarks and will seize upon them as further ammunition against the genus Babbitt. The intelligent will likewise see the justice of his criticisms--only they will not entirely damn the country to everlasting dreariness, but will reserve hope for the future and patience for the present...