Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Your article on "Boomers & Howlers" (TIME, Aug. 19, p. 11) reported well the serious forest fire situation with which "desperate, haggard foresters'" were coping at the time. But in your footnote you came far short of the fact in giving the number of forest fires in the U. S. last year. Not 6,921 fires, but some 177,000 fires occurred during 1928. . . . C. E. RANDALL Forest Service U. S. Department of Agriculture Washington...
With eleven days of practice behind them, the university soccer eleven is prepared to face Worcester Polytechnic in the opening game of the season here today. John F. Carr '28, who handled the freshmen in the fall of 1928, is replacing John Kershaw as university coach this year. The fact that Coach Carr is relying on seven sophomores to start against the strong Worcester team is significant...
...class before and the first class after a one-day holiday will not necessarily result in probation. Such cuts will, however, be especially noted on the student's record and if, at any future time during that year, such a man's record becomes unsatisfactory in any particular, the fact that he has taken holiday cuts will weigh heavily against him. The last class before and the first class after both the Christmas and April recess periods must be attended. If a cut is taken from such a class, save for illness or some other unavoidable reason...
...Wednesday's Boston Herald, Burt Whitman, sports writer, in a column headed "Why all this hysteria?" charged Harvard undergraduates and graduates in general with an unwarranted and foolish optimism in regard to the approaching grid campaign. In fact he included in his indictment all football fans "within 50 miles of the sacred cod atop the state house." He says, "It begins to look as if Harvard might win all of its games by undergraduate and general fan edict before a single game is played. It is a hysteria of optimism which is not at all uncommon in college football circles...
...matter of fact, snobbishness is probably not as prevalent at Harvard as it is in many small New England colleges," he continued, "Harvard's reputation comes from the fact, no doubt, that she always does things in a grand manner. The University does what it feels should be done, and doesn't bother to explain, though the heathen rage...