Word: truth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...peculiar teachings of Jesus found in Matthew or Luke are best represented in their peculiar parables. In the parables of Matthew the most noteworthy ethical truth is Jesus's plea for considering temperament and final issue, as set forth in the parable of the two sons...
Under the caption of "The Harvard Daily Truth--A Vision," Mr. von Kaltenborn pictures a great newspaper run and operated by the University, partly as an example of what a great university ought to be, and partly as a great school of practical journalism. It is a well-written plea for what the author is pleased to call a new movement in education. There is undoubtedly a movement toward making all instruction objective and practical. Mr. von Kaltenborn's plan looks in that direction. There is also a movement toward restricting a school or a college to those parts...
...whose serious blank verse and delightful comedy have given him a place in the front rank of American playwrights. It has often been said that the literary work of Harvard men is usually critical rather than creative. We are forced to admit that there is a certain amount of truth in this statement, but we can point out several striking exceptions. Among the comparatively few really noteworthy American dramatists two Harvard men stand out with particular prominence, and another has begun a career of great promise. These men are William V. Moody '93, Percy W. MacKaye '97, and Edward...
...action. He inculcated the virtue of reverence. He awakened and developed ideals in his pupils, he did not impose them from without. His presence lighted up the lower levels of life and in it all seemed to be welded into a community of higher resolve. He sought for truth and beauty in the works and character of man; and this ideal standard of truth and beauty, by which he measured all things, his pupils found embodied in the man himself...
...practical man; he stated that all men have equal rights, and so the Filipino is not a slave. A man has only the right to govern himself; when he governs others, therefore, he may only do so with the full consent of the governed. Lincoln stated an undeniable truth when he said, "No man is good enough to govern another without that one's consent." Yet we keep the Philippine Islands without the least regard to the wishes of the natives. Out of these conditions two questions arise: first, the question of right and the possibility of success; second...