Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that oddity of entities, truth. These weary, worried participants in the Memorial Hall Grand Guignol have at least the satisfaction of knowing that they have learned how intelligently and adequately to read, how to orient facts, how to present those facts. And, since there are facts and facts, a truism appreciated by the departments, they have discovered that no evil can befall him who chooses among them in preparing and answering his divisional examinations. Hence, this catharsis from the pity and fear inspired by divisionals has its companion, not completely ancillary good in the particular training involved. The Harvard...
There is something essentially unethical in all this. It seems a truism to say that the raison d'etre of a Senator is to legislate rather than to perpetuate his lease of power and that of his party ad infinitum if possible. Yet the senatorial attitude seems to be the reverse of this. And Haines' reappointment seems to indicate that the president shares the senatorial viewpoint...
...examination of his report reveals first the basic generalization, "that there is no substitute for intercollegiate competition in the form of intramural sports; there is place for both." That is almost a truism but it immediately raises the question what places, what positions of relative importance shall they occupy. Already this spring the Second Team intercollegiate baseball schedule has been discarded with the exception of a game with Yale for intramural competition. Such a move would seem to indicate that all second teams, essentially intercollegiate in their organization, would be abolished in favor of class teams. It might logically...
...less permanent a part of the Princeton travelling equipment than the Tiger water bottles. Plays that have ruffled the grass only behind high board fences of New Jersey are all ready to be revealed to a crowded Stadium this afternoon. And of no other team is the truism so true that predictions based on previous scores are like houses built upon sands...
...Paul's, London, the Earl of Crawford unveiled as a memorial to John Singer Sargent a bronze crucifix The Redemption-executed by that painter 20 years ago. "We commonly say," said the Earl, "that every man's work is his own monument. What is metaphorically a truism is here an actual fact...