Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth is that this team would have been chosen even if it had lost its NCAA play-in series to Patriot League-champion Army and not gotten the chance to tally two victories in the tournament. The story of Harvard baseball this season begins, ends and middles with the Princeton Tigers...
...write entries for the Class Book detailing our material successes. At least one person, however, will step forward bravely and confess that his or her life hasn't turned out at all like expected. Our hearts will skip a beat as we wonder how our former classmate failed. The truth, of course, is that the only failure is the person who loses their inner moral compass, who gives up hope, who becomes part of the system instead of a voice urging--sometimes in the face of public opinion--to change it. It is of no use to profit...
...that the propensity to confront authority and orthodoxy was one of the hallmarks of a great intellect. He writes: "I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions... I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways." Perhaps it is no surprise that Emerson was sometimes considered a heretic during his academic career at Harvard...
...final seconds ticked off of the clock, and as the rowdy Lynah Rink faithful began chanting, "End of season," the Harvard hockey team finally faced the bitter truth that dreams don't always come true. For in many ways, the season had been over for some time...
...have always valued the truth over everything in my reporting. This doesn't just mean not lying; it means telling the full truth as accurately as I know how. I believe that you, the reader, shouldn't have to be at the game to know that forward X committed three heinously stupid penalties in one period, that goalie Y let in a soft goal that he should have stopped, that defenseman Z slipped and fell to allow a 2-on-1 from which the other team scored the game-winning goal...