Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second English printer, several of whose editions are being shown, was Wynkyn de Worde, about 1510. He inherited his types from Caxton, and a noteworthy fact is that he adopted his predecessor's complete heading, and added to it special designs both above and below...
...realizes that this is true, especially if Texas 'points' for the game. As to the game and the final score, I just hope the better team will win on merit, not on flukes or fumbles. The possibility of the score doesn't interest me so much as the fact of the game itself. What pleases me is that Harvard, the oldest American university, has reached out over 2,000 miles from the Northeast and extended the glad hand of friendship to Texas, the oldest and largest university in the Southwest, and has said with a smile. 'Come...
Even more significant than the architecture of Yenching University, however, is the fact that this Chinese university, founded and financed by U.S. money, will be Chinese-controlled. Presiding at the dedication was Chancellor Wu Lei-Ch'uan, onetime Chinese vice-minister of education (1928-29) and now head of Yenching University. Strong is the spirit of nationalism in China, pleasing to Chinese Nationalists should be Yenching's Chinese executive. Meanwhile Dr. J. Leighton Stuart continues in control of administrative detail and academic routine. President since 1919, Dr. Stuart ably guided the university through the perplexities of China...
...arguments most frequently heard in support of intercollegiate athletics is the fact that they offer an opportunity for contact and understanding between the undergraduates of the various institutions involved. Just how effective the usual type of football weekend is as a good will tour will always remain a bit of a problem, but certain it is that there are potentialities in this direction which deserve development...
...fact that undergraduate feeling, in general as well as in the particular instance of football, is almost universally grossly misinterpreted must be taken into consideration. Students seldom reach the heights of enthusiasm about anything, and they never stay on those heights for long. Whatever minor evils it causes as a temporary distraction, football certainly does not have and never can have a great enough hold on the undergraduate permanently to warp his point of view or seriously to interfere with his education...