Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James S. Lanigan '40, stressed the fact that "aggression anywhere in the world is a threat to the peace of the United States," and claimed that the co-existence of a fascist Europe and a democratic America is a virtual impossibility...
...that the time trials to date are not as promising as those turned in at the same time last spring. However, he goes on to state that there is a keener spirit of competition between the first and second crews than was evident at any time last year. In fact, it is the second crew's persistence in beating the first boat that has necessitated a continued shifting of men from one boat to another in an attempt to find the fastest combination...
...fact, Harvard officials have never in the past evinced any active desire to fight or mitigate the vice which exists in the Square. Their attitude has rather been curiously apathetic, a halting disapproval which has never been vigorous enough to drive them to organized warfare. This apathy has naturally enervated any other groups with vested interests in the problem. Just how the administrative officers have been able to lull themselves into such a pleasant slumber is an interesting question...
...desperate attempt of the average student to find some order in the chaos which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves him" which drives a student to tutoring schools, according to one letter. A father bemoans the fact that a professor refused his Freshman son needed aid, forcing him to a tutoring school. Two Freshmen accuse the University of ignoring the problem which first year men meet in organizing their work and in facing an entirely new system. Others lambaste excessive and dull reading lists...
...much of these faults, and they are used to rationalize things for which they are not responsible. The tutoring schools blow them up to huge proportions, using them to explain the most vicious practices. Rich and indolent students give them as an excuse in entirely unwarranted cases. And the fact remains that without the knavery of the Harvard tutoring schools, and without a wealthy, lazy clientele, the tutoring racket would not exist