Word: fact
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harry Krepelka of Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, who was recently appointed to a Research Fellowship in Chemistry at the University, has already arrived and is engaged in the study of atomic weights under Professor Theodore W. Richards '86. This incident is of especial significance in bringing to light the fact of a foreign technical student coming to an American University to continue the specialized training which he formerly would have completed in Germany...
...alien citizens the responsibilities of American citizenship than by giving them a period of service in a democratic army? General Pershing, appearing before the Joint Military Committee of Congress, said "Universal training is in a sense a school for citizenship. . . the necessity of this is evidenced by the fact that over thirty-two per cent of the drafted men were illiterate...
...fact that the Daylight Saving Law has expired, the game will commence at 2 o'clock instead of 3 o'clock
...carry on the work successfully in both places since the income from the present endowment is far too small to meet the expenses. Thus it is planned to lower expenses by combining the two similar institutions within the same grounds. Another argument in favor of the change is the fact that a combination of the two would prevent duplication in the work hereafter as well as giving the Bussey students, all of whom remain for summer work, an opportunity to use the Garden at the time of its greatest usefulness...
...further example of this co-operative spirit may be found in the fact that courses of instruction are interchangeable between the Divinity School and the Andover Theological School, and that at present all of the instruction for the former is carried on in the Andover buildings since the Divinity Library and Divinity Hall were taken over by the Radio School. This general arrangement, begun with Andover, has been further extended to other schools, until at present it includes in a modified form a group of five separate theological schools, all interrelated and working in perfect harmony...