Word: true
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...change from the usual requirements has been made this year in that the length of the poem need not be restricted to 50 lines. All manuscript must bear an assumed name and must be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer and superscribed with the assumed name. The competition is only open to undergraduates of Harvard College. All manuscripts should be left at University 4, at the office of the Secretary of the Faculty, by 5 P. M., April...
...Humphries looks favorably on certain phases of Soviet government. Many of us may see its good points. But the fact is that Mr. Humphries is not the sort of man who should be encouraged to speak in Harvard halls, nor are his methods suited to give his audience a true conception of Russian conditions...
...matter which should be well considered. The stretch between Wilfred Humphries being allowed to speak at Harvard and encouraged to speak at Harvard is not a long one. We do not wish it thought that the University believes in such tactics as his, for it is not true. We would not object to a sober and intellectual discussion of Russian affairs, both from admirers and critics, but we do object to unbalanced speeches from avowed propagandists...
...name mentioned in this incident is fictitious, but the occurrence is a true one, Mr. Straus does not contend--nor does anyone else--that it is typical of college men in general. The "superior" type is, fortunately, becoming relatively scarce. An examination of the names of men of achievement appearing in "Who's Who" shows that only one uneducated child in one hundred and fifty thousand is able to accomplish anything that entitles him to honorable mention in the progress of his state; that children with common-school education win out four times as often; that a high school diploma...
According to his theory it is true that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles and the circumference of a circle is not exactly twice the radius times Pi. However, in order to prove these facts it is necessary again to use a fourth dimension in time and all computations on these theories must take time into account...