Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farthest from the minds of people so engaged is the idea that they are being educated; if they thought so, many would run, not walk, to the nearest exit. But the fact remains. Here, cramming is rare; tutoring schools, so incredible as to be ridiculous; ghost-writing, pointless. Here is the "essence of the educational process" which "furnishes the student with the tools to learn and the will to know...
Regretting the fact that "so many men consider boxing to be a matter of give and take even before actual training and instruction have begun." Lamar stated that he expects the number of boxers to grow as the season progresses...
...team is far better offensively than defensively, being hampered in its back-board work by its lack of height. But it will be helped by the fact that the game is on the home floor, a good bit longer than Hangar Gym, on which the Tech quintet is used to playing...
...dearth of students genuinely interested in their work cannot be blamed solely on teaching methods. Certainly another contributing factor is to be found in the fact that colleges and universities have so increased in both size and numbers that they include in their classes many unfitted to receive a liberal arts education. Just as there is no single cause for a decline in the number of students classed by Mr. Frost as "self-starters," so there is no single panacea which will remedy the situation. However, the inclusion on university faculties of men of Mr. Frost's liberal outlook...
...said and done, the case of the assistant professors is primarily responsible for bringing up the tenure controversy. The whole business might never have arisen if students and faculty members had not become acutely aware that certain excellent professors giving superior courses were being forced to leave. In fact, the only reason for participation in the controversy by students--who rightly have a short-run view--was the hope that some arrangement could be made to keep the men. With the new rules of the game, the original slip can be corrected...