Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professor of Homilectics commented upon the fact that all Freshman classes are not the same, but noticeably differ from each other. Not only does one class differ from another in individual characteristics and tendencies, he stated, but each shows the influence of the contemporary world upon it. The Class of 1941 differs in part from the Class of 1940 because the world to a degree is different this year in mood and outlook from last year...
...said, on reports from members of the Class of 1911, declares in his article, that the whole problem of getting students boils down to this: "There aren't enough clients to go around, and a wild scramble for students has been the result." The competition between colleges has in fact, Tunis declares, become so intense that prospective students are being bribed, bought, and even kidnapped in order to build enrollments. A case in Indiana is reported where three students were transported to another campus and there offered such inducements that they immediately signed for the kidnapping college...
...Dean's Office, the Hygiene Department, the tutorial and proctorial system, and the cohort of Freshman Advisers attest the fact that there is adequate provision made to look after the physical and the intellectual sides of the student's life. Notwithstanding all those provisions, there are students who have difficulties which are not very clear cut and need more attention than many of these officers can give. Brooks House, with the consent of the Dean's Office, has seen fit to create a position which will provide a person who is thoroughly familiar with the University, its officers and aims...
Currently at the University, "The Toast of New York" ranks high in entertainment, low as an artistic production. One fact probably follows from the other. For while a cast including Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Cary Grant, and Jack Oakie aims to please every taste, presence of such diverse and typed stars would without well-knit plot tend to disrupt any film into a series of bit performances. Such actually takes place, as the producers did not make out over well with their plot...
...there is no such animal as a Harvard man. This assumption, current in the provincial towns of New Haven, Princeton, and Hanover, is as superstitious as the one which holds that every German is like Hitler or every American a Jim Farley. Instead, every Harvard man places foremost the fact that he represents no type, no product. Neither does a Harvard man have an accent. Certainly accents to exist in Cambridge; they are two kinds: Back Bay and affected. As for clothes, keep in mind the ancient aphorism: "Clothes make the Williams man, but the Radcliffe girl makes...