Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People in this vicinity would probably like to know the real situation behind the Committee for Electoral Reform. It may be either a group of sincere men who honestly believe that the Senior Class method of nominations is unbearable, or a conspiracy to rectify the fact that some of its friends were not elected and to nominate more and other friends...
Three reasons give weight to the belief that the Committee is merely an angry and jealous minority. First a Senior Class convention, especially if held in the New Lecture Hall on a warm day in April, can easily kindle a stingaree of a riot. More important is the fact that a Convention will undoubtedly lead to every conceivable kind of politics, vote-staggering, filibustering, and what not. Second, the Committee's idea of protesting an election in which the winners win by a slight margin is an example of sorehead thinking. Any man who permits his name to appear...
...completely demolished, but no one was seriously injured, a fact which was attributed to the turret...
While Freshmen are searching for a field of concentration, many will be influenced in their choice by the fact that English concentrators must have passed C.P.3 in Latin or Greek or the equivalent in order to go out for honors. The intention of the Department is apparently to encourage high-school boys to acquire a classical foundation, though it is certain that few have ever heard of such a requirement till their Freshman year. Actually the Department discourages some Freshmen from deciding to concentrate in English; others, finding themselves handicapped, are content to run along smoothly on a 'C' level...
...politics have been resorted to in the past and are being planned for the future. And in a college organization of this sort, particularly when it is dealing with a subject as vast and intangible as world peace, there is absolutely no cause for employing these parliamentary tricks. The fact that two hundred Harvard students advocate leagues of nations, Ludlow amendments or lisle lingerie is not going to alter the course of human events to any marked degree. Nor is the fact that twenty out of the two hundred can impose their will on the rest likely to bring these...