Word: factness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...academic mind, there is more satisfaction to be found in the personal advantage accruing from the responsibility to the student than in the fact that he is now recognized as a potentially safe risk by investment houses. His early establishment of credit and operation of the loan on a sound business basis naturally creates a measure of self-reliance in the formative period of life which should be of immense value in later years. Gratitude should be expressed to the Harmon trustees as much for the practical economic experience gained by the recipients of the loans as for the opportunities...
...When railroads use freight cars belonging to other lines, they pay $1 per day. Last week the Boston & Maine purchased 2,000 new box cars, costing $5,000,000, from the Mellons' Standard Steel Car Co. Unique in the deal was the fact that the B. & M. will pay in daily installments of $1 on each car plus 5% on the unpaid balance...
Fifth, very few wets will say that they want the saloon back. Why? If the present conditions are, as they say, so much worse than they were when we had saloons, why not have the saloons back? The very fact that they are unwilling to say that they want the saloon back, has a meaning. They know perfectly well that present conditions, bad as they are, are vastly better than they wore in the days of the saloon. To that extent at least prohibition is a success...
...past seasons the fault in the officiating at college and amateur games lay in the fact that the referees, usually the same ones that arbitrated at the professional games, were not thoroughly familiar with the amateur rules. It was the purpose of the meeting to correct this. No action was taken on the new offside rules now in force in the professional leagues...
Some explanation other than the too easy one of undergraduate inertia must be found for the fact that fewer than one-half the men eligible voted in the Senior elections held last Wednesday. Granted that the present generation at Harvard has putgrown any yearning for strenuous political activity, there has nevertheless existed, even in recent year, much more interest in the choosing of class-officers than was manifested by the Class of 1930. The chief reason for the slight vote is rather to be found in the range of polling places and of time for voting. There are two alternatives...