Word: fact
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...section applauds assent. (Fact...
...objected that this is not the proper aim for a university, and that instruction of this kind belongs to the commercial college. But surely, the fact that more than half the graduates in every class go into business, and that the others have more or less to do with money matters, shows that, although the practical may be unduly set aside here, it will force itself to the front in after life. The University has the power to combine both; and the time has come for it to give the experiment a fair trial. Hitherto it has disregarded the aims...
...sold in France up to this time has been manufactured by the government. Of late, the demand for other makes has arisen, and the government, to meet it, allowed English and American manufacturers to enter goods for competitive test with a view to the adoption of the best. The fact that Wm. S. Kimball & Co have come out far ahead of all other manufacturers in both countries is unmistakable proof that their goods are the best the world produce. Their tobacco and cigarettes will henceforth be on sale in Paris as freely as in New York, but no other make...
...paper statements which are not only false but preposterously absurd. We should like to inform the Watchman: 1st, that the students of Harvard College have not formed a considerable part of the audiences at the performances of the "Black Crook," as will readily be seen from the fact that it would require great effort on the part of one thousand students to form a "considerable part of the audience," for two weeks, in a theatre that holds about twenty-five hundred persons; 2d, that the basis of fact, which the writer's imagination has distorted into the above statement...
...then declares that he did not know it was ungentlemanly, while we pity his ill-breeding, it is useless for us to argue the point with him. And however unsatisfactory this may appear, it seems to be the wisest course left for us to follow. As a matter of fact, the editorial and letter in the Advocate not only did not exaggerate, but hardly put the case strongly enough. The particular points therein specified rest on the authority of more than one witness, and something more than a general denial is needed to disprove them...