Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of rejections this year is smaller by 77 than last year at the same time. This is due partly to the smaller number of new Freshmen admitted to the college in 1937 and partly to the fact that the graduating class this year is larger than the Class of 1937. Last spring, 517 Freshmen and 66 upperclassmen out of a total of 1017 applicants were admitted in the first assignment...
...Harvard has been unable to utilize the results of the legal and other aptitude tests given by other schools." The difficulty arises from the fact that other schools have considered college records, aptitude and personality all together, and thus failed to isolate the results of the aptitude tests. "Personality," remarked Mr. Landis, "tends to be more guesswork." He said it might mean social background or almost anything that the interviewer wanted to take into consideration...
Located playing bridge over in McCulloch Hall, Jacobson appeared unrufiled by the fact that a Newton High School senior is listed ahead of him in the state rankings released yesterday. "I've been bringing him along; that's all," said the champion modestly...
...report the Carnegie Foundation stressed the root fact that "to endure, an education must be self-achieved." To make it mean something, to direct it along one single, clear course towards a prefixed destination, is the reason for demanding cooperation between dean, teacher, adviser, and even Freshman...
...Harvard Memorial Society, and no more fitting school could foster it than Harvard, whose history is longer and grander than that of any other American college. The searching out and the preservation of the tradition which have too often been forgotten must certainly be a worthwhile occupation. The fact that it has in the past attracted such eminent names as Roosevelt, Adams, Lodge, and Hart attests to its worth. Useful and commendable are the services which its can perform in the future...