Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quality of the men involved. An amidst the scurry for improvement, Professor Henderson's advice to mark time until the human element has caught up with the mechanical and theoretical rings true like an age-old maxim. Certainly the real significance of this most recent proposal is the fact that in it lies the true foundation for the successful realization of the aims of countless new educational devices...
Notwithstanding, there are moments that aren't a bit bad, situations, that, for all their metronome-like precision of planning, get their points over in a routine and unhilarious manner. In fact, the playing is just that--routine and unhilarious. All the actors, with the possible exception of Mr. Mitchell, seem to have been deadened in years of stock work. Their character drawing is unsubtle, all darkness and brightness, with no intermediate shading...
...fact that the University has deemed it necessary in the past twelve months, however, to increase the fee exacted for additional courses, focuses attention on the underlying reason for the incidental source of income. The fee comes as a natural consequence in the case of a student desiring more courses than are ordinarily allowed under present tuition rates; on the other hand upon the conscientious man who prefers to enlist his efforts in bearing the brunt of concentration during his early college career, the fee falls with undue severity. No well defined arguments can be conceived to support a scheme...
That the Freshman forward wall has a world of power, is shown by the fact that the Andover line bucks totaled less than twelve for a gain of practically nothing...
Perhaps the fact that college years begin in the fall has something to do with it too. The adjectives applied to autumn weather--crisp, brisk, stimulating--are always suggestive of activity. Who knows what the effect would be if the opening came during that first warm spell when spring fever is rampant? In the midst of February slush when even the boardwalks in the Yard are under water or during an ill-timed March blizzard the Vagabond may long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There...