Word: actually
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...number of students in the University since that year. Leaving out of consideration the departments outside of Cambridge, which furnish very few active members, 46 per cent, of the students in the Cambridge departments were members last year and 45 per cent, this year, thus showing an actual loss of only 1 per cent. However, as compared to 1903, there is a loss of 5 per cent., the membership that year being 50 per cent. There was a decline of 95 in associate members from last year and 114 in non-resident memberships. These losses, though at present unimportant...
Despite the rather black outlook of low finances and memberships, there can be no doubt that the Union is being actually used more satisfactorily and by a larger number of men than ever before. Many have found that membership pays from purely selfish motives and that the Union is a source of almost indispensable convenience. The actual use of the Union in this way will do more towards strengthening it as a democratic force in the University than all the forced mass meetings and class smokers possible...
...conditions under which the men of the Life Saving Service work, Mr. Peck gave views of the Cape Cod, Florida and California coasts. He described minutely the great storm of Thanksgiving. 1898, in which the steamer "Portland" was lost with all on board. The lecturer then passed to the actual work of the service, which in thirty years has saved $166,000,000 and 102,000 lives. The 275 stations along our coasts, he said, are conducted under military rules. Three years previous experience as a sailor or fisherman is required of applicants, who must in addition pass physical...
...university, there are evidently two opinions. But if a college or university is primarily a place for training men for honorable, generous, and efficient service to the community at large, there ought not to be more than one opinion on the question whether a game, played under the actual conditions of football, and with the barbaric ethics of warfare, can be a useful element in the training of young men for such high service. The essential thing for university youth to learn is the difference between practising generously a liberal art and driving a trade or winning a fight...
...models of well known Jewish and Egyptian buildings, the work of the German archaeologist, Dr. Contra Schick, which have been placed on exhibition in the Palestinian room and in the hall of the top floor. One, the copy of the Haramesh-Sherif at Jerusalem, which is the result of actual measurements and careful observation, represents the present condition of the plateau where once stood the ancient Temple of Solomon, and also shows the Mosque of Omar, which, it is believed, occupies the site of Solomon's altar of burnt offerings. Another model is a representation of the Temple of Herod...