VIEWPOINT: Strive for Truth, Never Yield

VIEWPOINT: Strive for Truth, Never Yield

I was in high school when I first read Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s 1833 poem “Ulysses,” which chronicles the title character’s reflection on his years of travel, as recorded in Homer’s “Odyssey.” Though aging and facing impending mortality, Ulysses remains determined “to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.” To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield: These tasks have defined my time as a student journalist here at Georgetown University and …