Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Owing to this pressure, Harvard has already forsaken its motto. It now offers its students a diversely hall-marked experience instead of anything resembling veritas. Truth demands a sobering progression toward it and away from everything else. The heady democratic ideal of limitless experience, by contrast, encourages permanent disorientation, immoderate openness and intransigent immaturity. Once a promiser of maturity, our university is now an apologist for adolescence...
...what is good and bad, better and worse, important and trivial, right and wrong. He will not become indiscriminate, but will learn how to discriminate justly. If he shows contempt for others, he will do it with reason and not bigotry. He will not hold opinions but know truth...
...must ultimately turn to the exceedingly difficult works of Plato and Aristotle. The reason one must strenuously study these fossilized Greeks reveals itself only after the fact, so you must take my advice on trust and hope it eventually appreciates into conviction. In any case, most of us see truth and goodness too dimly to rely wisely on our own judgment, so we must learn to see from those who saw clearly...
...Harvard-Yale rivalry when you indisputably attend the best college in the United States. But when some podunk, half-rate magazine calling itself a news provider casts doubt upon that status--as much as you know in your heart of hearts that nothing could possibly be further from the truth--the rivalry suddenly becomes more important...
...they frequently pay money for stories. Star editors admit they paid 37-year-old prostitute Sherry Rowlands for her details of the alleged trysts with Morris (the amount was "under $50,000," they say). Yet they insist that the transaction did not make them any less confident of the truth of her allegations. In this instance the Star gathered enough supporting evidence to satisfy most editors--though the way they got it would probably make many blanch...