Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Former Governor James Michael Curley in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday at his Boston headquarters declared that the Harvard community should vote for him in spite of the fact that his opponent, Leverett Saltonstall '14, is a graduate of the University...
There seemed to be little enthusiasm for the prospect of revamping Memorial Hall for a graduate board-center, Landis felt. He recalled the fact that when he was in College the building was notoriously unpopular, not only for its atmosphere but for its "lousy food." The latter, of course, could be corrected if the hall was put back...
...invoke more specific arguments. Gifts for stated purposes, although rarely refused, have in the past been sources of positive embarrassment to the University. There have been lecture series, even professorships, which involved questionable and unnecessary attacks upon popular institutions, even upon religions. Negatively equivalent to this is the fact that restricted grants have frequently supported eminently useless projects. Arising, perhaps, from vital controversies in the eighteenth century, these later became unique for their insignificance, yet had to be perpetuated. Wealth means little to Harvard when devoted to such ends...
...last two years, but ten percent of the gifts Harvard has received have been unrestricted grants which the University may use as it sees fit. Moreover, the percentage of such gifts shows a declining trend. This is in spite of the fact that many of President Conant's speeches and reports have echoed eloquently the plea for fluid funds. Either because Harvard's benefactors are of an unimpressionable nature, or because they fail to read the President's speeches, the University finds itself tied and thwarted on every hand, with its efficiency gravely impaired...
...college students as 'rich boys' or as a 'privileged group,' there is much to be said for holding college students to a special sense of social responsibility. Continued education ought to lead to a heightened sense of the value of freedom and with it a fuller understanding of the fact that freedom rests on respect for the rights of others and for human dignity...