Word: fact
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Clark, Jr., Occ., third All-American guard, will be unable to accompany the football team on its Western trip. This decision is due to the fact that he has an injured back, which if struck on the right place would cause paralysis, and which he is not willing to risk in this game. All the regular season he played, contrary to his doctor's advice. J. F. Brown '22 will probably fill his position against Oregon...
...interest your class to know that the quality of the plays submitted far exceeded even my sanguine hopes. The value of the plays in this contest may best be tested by the fact that as a rule. I produce one play-in each thousand submitted for my consideration. That I shall in all probability produce at least four of the forty-two submitted is a criterion at least, of my own opinion of the plays...
...would be able to land and to start from the roofs of buildings in the heart of a city. This implies the necessity of a motor strong enough to swing a propellor which would lift the machine by sheer strength without the help of the wings. It is in fact the application of the principle laid down by Orville Wright that a kitchen table could fly with sufficient engine power...
...will deny that members of the University or anyone else has the "right" to hear "facts" about Russia. Nor will anyone deny that those people eager for the knowledge can ask any person they please to tell them about Russia. But an entirely different light is thrown on the matter when a man is invited to speak in a University building who is wholly and entirely unfitted to address a body of students. Here again, no one will deny the "right" to extend the invitation. It is not that Mr. Humphries looks favorably on certain phases of Soviet government. Many...
...honorable mention in the progress of his state; that children with common-school education win out four times as often; that a high school diploma gives them eighty-seven times as much chance--while a college education makes them eight hundred times as likely to succeed. But the fact that such incidents as the above do still happen should be sufficient to make us more guarded against assuming any over-confidence. Success is by no means guaranteed by education. What has been said before still applies today, that education is nothing more nor less than an effective tool, the successful...