Word: fact
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Prospect Union is not just another of those extra-curricular activities "deserving of undergraduate support." Its special significance for Harvard at this time lies in the fact that it offers the best and perhaps the only opportunity for College men to meet grown men from a really different social stratum on something like a common basis...
...ordinary man, intent upon his own affairs, and content to let the universe whirl on as it it will so long as it does not bother him, the fact that men devote their whole lives to the stars is of little moment. He feels that it is a great waste of time, perhaps--that is all. Unknown to him is the fact that he sets his watch according to time given him by astronomers, that ships could not navigate the seas; that the commerce of the world depends on the painstaking care and self-sacrificing effort of men whose names...
...entitled "Italian Paradoxes." The trouble with that exotic, damaging wind up is that the conclusion has been grounded on a groundless minor premise which somehow seems to have crept into many a superficial, unhistorical mind. Despite mischievous Machiavellian (Japanese) misrepresentations and overbubbling Senatorial sentimentalism, the plain, broad historical fact remains that Shantung, the cradle of Cathayan civilization, has stayed put as Chinese--and stood pat against alien intrusion, I will add--since time immemorial; and Chinese will it ever be without need of capturing, let alone d'Annunzio and his army. Academically put, the political sovereignty of Shantung is never...
...series of concerts in Cambridge. In tonight's program the club is making a departure from its former custom in the standard of the music and singing which it will offer. The change from the more social aspect of the club in former years is marked by the fact that it has pledged itself to a policy of offering the highest standard of music that the ability of the University affords...
According to the trainers, no difficulty will be experienced in getting the men back into condition, in spite of the fact that they have broken training. Two weeks' practice, they say, will be sufficient to get each man into as good physical shape as when the season closed. The long trip on the train will not seriously affect the team, as they will have plenty of opportunity to limber up before the game...