Word: actually
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would think that in this case, as well as in the case of the seniors, that the necessity of signing a statement to the effect that the rooms were drawn for personal occupation, would deter most men from abusing the privilege of transfer. But actual experience shows that it does not. Men do not scruple to sign a lie when it comes to a matter of rooms. They excuse themselves by saying that everybody else does it. Of course I will not attempt to show to what extremes such reasoning leads...
...young men selected in this way, the most worthless are weeded out during the first year, under a very watchful process, which rests finally upon the test of frequent examinations. The actual depletion of the freshman class through direct dropping at Christmas-time and in June, and voluntary surrender under fear of dropping, is ten per cent. The same process is repeated in the following years." This preparation has been especially directed to prepare the student to develop the power of self-direction, and not merely to make him acquainted with certain subjects...
...statistics can show the actual advance in real scholarship under the new system over the old. But all acquainted with the results testify to this advance. The spirit of Harvard students has changed from the school-boy spirit to the scholarly spirit. This is fast coming true in conduct as in work. "Indeed, one sometimes becomes apprehensive lest the sense of humor may be dying out at Harvard," says Mr. Hale rather extravagantly, "and it is with something like a feeling of relief that one reads of such a bit of mischief as that recent one (conducted, it seems...
...directors that the steward be directed to cut down the price of board to $4.25 per week, by means of reducing the variety, and that the articles of food removed from the regular bill of fare be put on the order list at prices just sufficient to cover the actual cost of the provisions used...
...consequence, the delights and glories of college hazing and rushing were unknown to the simple-minded barbarians of Athens and Rome. It is a fact, we believe, that in our day there are one or two institutions in Germany where a partial system of student-government is in actual operation. But it was reserved for America, of course, to make the first complete experiment in the matter. At the State Industrial University, at Champaign, Illinois, for a number of years, a thoroughly organized and once successful students' government has been in operation. Of late, however, this Utopian scheme has received...