Word: untruth
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...were surprised to read in the New York and Boston daily papers of the past two or three days that a game of foot ball was to be played between Harvard and Princeton at Madison Square Garden. We suppose this untruth is an outgrowth of the proposed game between the Boston Athletic Association and the Manhattan Athletic Club; as some of the men to represent Boston were from Harvard, and some of those to represent the Manhattan Club were associated with Princeton. At the time of our reading these surprising statements we were struck with the feeling that...
What I want to see done away with is the officially organized untruth, which excites my indignation every time I have to carry it into execution; every professor twice a year testifies that dozens of students have been present at his lectures, who, he knows, have never set foot in his room. It has happened repeatedly that students guilelessly presented to me Professor Eck's Pandects for me to sign, thereby admitting that they did not know either Professor Eck or me by sight...
...communication are not included in the class work, and with them the senior class photographer has no official connection. The charge that Mr. Notman sub-lets the work is ridiculously untrue, as we have been informed on reliable authority. We suppose, however, that the committee can easily show the untruth of these alleged "desires for economy." We wish to repeat that the senior class has elected Mr. Notman photographer, and that they ought to do all they can to make the pictures a success, and to assist the committee in its work, and not to thwart and discourage the committee...
...with a scorn which has no mixture of pity. We may blame him for his quickness in discovering our vices and our failings, or for his slowness to appreciate our virtues; we may complain that he seeks the disease rather than the remedy; yet we seldom accuse him of untruth. But Thackeray's sarcasm is a cloak for his compassion. He is content to assume the form of derision, that he may the better excite our indignant pity...