Word: true
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that Harvard has suffered the loss of three such prominent sons. But the influence of their lives has not vanished with them and the memory of their attainments and their usefulness will still incite numberless Harvard men to imitate the earnestness, liberality and love of what is good and true, that made them useful citizens and true Harvard gentlemen...
...primarily the affairs of the undergraduates, that the Athletic Committee is in a way responsible to them, and that they therefore have a right to know what it is doing in all important matters. They realize however that intercollegiate athletics are not conducted as frankly and openly as true amateur sport demands they should be, and concede that a certain amount of secrecy is unfortunately still necessary. But they believe that they should have been informed, for example, of the pending negotiations with Yale, and should have some knowledge of the progress of those negotiations which concern them so nearly...
...that of the conventional French visitor who considers American men as mere money-making machines, and who thinks that the ambition of every American girl is to marry a foreign nobleman. He has been told many marvellous tales about our life which he has immediately written down as true...
...Soisson's book is, however, very readable and shows that he has a keen sense of humor. Occasionally, as in the chapter upon immigration, he betrays a good deal of originality and gives expression to ideas which are both fresh and surprisingly true. Altogether, although there is just a suggestion of Max O'Rell about it, A Parisian in America is rather better than most of the books of its kind, and serves to while away a pleasant half-hour...
...large majority of the students never attend any services. This appalling state of affairs is one of the principal facts upon which outsiders base their judgment that Harvard men are non-religious. But, though this may seem to the casual observer the natural conclusion, we think that the true explanation of most of the absences from chapel is carelessness and unwillingness to sacrifice a few minutes. Many men have never taken the trouble to go inside the Chapel. It is not because they are atheists and devoid of all religious sentiment, but because they have a feeling that the Chapel...