Word: untruths
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...what time you have and use it well. Learn your business; tell all you know about it; and be informed on your subject so that you will never tell an untruth unconsciously. Although making a mistake is not the same thing as deceiving; still you are responsible for the facts and, therefore, for the truth...
...that he had been touched deeply by greatness and wore the mark of it with unconcern; not that he was the noblest friend of honesty and common sense and the ruthless foe of cant, unfairness, untruth and un-Americanism; not that he took always the most dangerous part for himself; not that he was a man of splendid human qualities; not for anything that can be set down in words, but for something to which his deeds and attributes and heroism all pertained--for himself we loved...
...members of the faculty or of speakers from the outside is based upon a misconception of the attitude of the students toward those who address them from the lecture platform. That attitude is almost invariably one of respect, mingled with doubt. No audience is quicker to perceive the untruth, the fallacy, or, on the other hand, the worth of an argument. Weight of academic authority counts for little to the university student who is accustomed to listen daily to men famous over the civilized world. The trustees of Columbia, as of other colleges, fail to realize the spirit of criticism...
Bookman--"The Note of Untruth in Some Recent Books," by F. T. Cooper '86; "Two New Volumes of the Oxford Translations," by J. C. Rolfe...
...aggregation of colleges or of technical schools, but one College as the centre and controlling spirit of the graduate departments of the University. The Harvard spirit is like that of the fighting corps of the German universities, and its enemies in its fight are shams and insincerity and untruth...