Word: actually
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Atlantic Monthly has made an inquiry of ten thousand teachers and superintendents of public schools concerning the actual status of teachers and the schools in every part of the Union. The replies from the best informed men in the work in every state give at firsthand information that contains much encouragement, but much discouragement also. The excessive size of classes, the instability of great masses of teachers, the insecurity of their positions, in some communities the petty political and religious interference-these "confessions" are startling and shocking. A general summary of the results of this interesting inquiry by Professor...
...began with the history of the disputed territory from the time that Spain claimed Guiana. It is not international law, the lecturer said, that discovery gives claim to possession. The claims of Spain in Guiana were not repeated by other European countries since they were not backed up by actual possession. Guiana changed hands many times...
...weighing of the needs of one department against those of another with the result that though some departments have been advanced more than others, there has been at least a steady progress in all. To tell of what President Eliot has done for the University not only in the actual acquisition of resources both financial and educational during his administration, but in his exemplification of what the university president is to be for at least a long time to come, would be to repeat what was so feelingly said and many times repeated a year and a half...
Though the actual work of publishing the magazine is done almost entirely by students of the Prospect Union, the sources from which material is obtained are not limited, and the present number contains several contributions from well-known men, some of whom are connected with the University...
...baths, which thus far at least have not been prominently suggested, the proposed club at Harvard would not improbably include all the features of the Houston Club and some others besides. So far as appears, the members of the Pennsylvania club have been moved to join purely for the actual usefulness and convenience which they get out of it, and these have been so evident and so generally felt that it is thought that nearly all the members of the university will become members by the end of this month. The different method of carrying on the Houston Club financially...