Word: actually
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which has published no conflicting election returns, has issued no extra editions with false bulletins intended to keep up the excitement and a steady sale of the papers, but with a tender regard for the highly strung nerves of its readers has quietly pursued its former business of reporting actual occurrences. Such a journal the students of Harvard college support, and to its soothing and moderating influence may be traced in a great measure the coolness and resignation to the inevitable, shown by the great majority of its readers. The CRIMSON'S policy in times of great political excitement...
...method of conducting future tournaments. This fall the tennis association, alleging as an excuse the lack of a sufficient number of courts, allowed the tournament to be played on any courts and at any time. Consequently it was impossible to watch the play. No one, except the actual contestants, knew when or where a game was to be played. In fact the only way in which the gentleman who had charge of the tournament knew the result was by means of occasional slips of paper left at his room. Under these circumstances it is not strange that no interest...
...great deal of money on these schools with apparently little return, for the number of students is ridiculously small. The real benefit comes from the fact that the country is being supplied with teachers who are thoroughly grounded in their respective branches, and who can add the authority of actual experience to their statements...
...proper elements for a college education. "If any study is liberal and literalizing," he writes, "it is the modern study of history. Philology and polite literature arrogate the title of the humanities;' but what study can so justly claim that honorable title as the study which deals with the actual experience on this earth of social and progressive...
...regular fee of $15 is paid on the first term bill under the item of "Laboratory supplies and damage of apparatus." Besides this, at the end of the year another fee is required to cover the cost of actual breakage made by each laboratory student. This fee varies with the care exercised by the student. On the last term bill it appears under the same item of expense as the first fee, and hence our correspondent's error. The last fee is for nothing but damages to apparatus and for any chemicals, besides the regular reagents used by the student...