Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well known fact that certain departments of Harvard are less difficult than certain others. Every one knows, for example, that the Philosophy and English Departments are more difficult than the Social Ethics and Anthropology Departments. Not only are the majority of courses within the "snap" departments easy, but worse still, these departments are more lenient than the other departments in recommending seniors for a degree. Herein lies the evil of the system. Conferring a degree upon one senior and refusing to confer a degree upon another means that the authorities of Harvard College believe that the one senior has obtained...
...explorers and geologists pointed out that there was good reason to believe that the Aztecs used and exploited petroleum. The immense, ornate 17th Century cathedral was built on the site of the great sacrificial pyramid destroyed by Cortez in 1521. New evidence points to the fact that the pyramid had covered a primitive oil well. While the scientists talked and planned, pious Mexicans visioned in shocked silence the desecration of one of America's oldest and holiest shrines...
...men? the late Andrew Dickson White and David Starr Jordan. An unbaked tradition says that a cause for Cornell's not giving honorary degrees is the outcry that arose?in and out of Cornell but especially in?over Dr. David Starr Jordan's unflinching pacifism during the War. The fact is that Dr. Jordan, Cornell '72, was honored three decades before the War, in 1886, the same year as Andrew Dickson White, who helped Ezra Cornell found Cornell. Their university gave no honorary degrees between 1886 and the Jordan pacifism. Very early in its career Cornell University looked around...
...Victor Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts, demands plenty of attention and reading in his course in architectural history, demands fat noteboks with multitudes of clipped illustrations. It is not an easy course. Yet it is crowded, relished. Probably even more satisfying to Dean Meeks is the fact that since his coming to the School of Fine Arts in 1916 it has become, in competition with nationwide art schools and ateliers, the most successful prize-winning institution in the country. Yale students have taken the annual Prix de Rome in painting, most coveted award to young daubers...
...most extraordinary thrills when Hugh kisses me. He musses all my clothes and untidies my hair, and my face gets all blotched and red. and I simply love it. In fact I think I'm very passionate; and it's a good thing if I am, because Hugh says...