Word: facto
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...time of the Senior Class elections, it was frequently urged that certain measures were objectionable because they were not democratic. This appeared to be considered by many as a final argument. The moment that any plan was suspected of a character not thoroughly popular, that plan was ipso facto condemned. Good or bad, it was at once abandoned by the majority...
...last Catalogue contains notice that all the rooms in Holworthy, with exception of those occupied by Proctors, will be charged this year a rent of $250. I should unhesitatingly commend this action of the Bursar if the post facto nature of the act were removed. To advertise one price, and, when the rooms are taken, to raise that price, is manifestly unjust. Two hundred and fifty dollars is not too much to be asked for Holworthy rooms, but I have looked in vain for a notice that the rent of other and very undesirable rooms - such as those...
...next informs us, and no doubt on excellent authority, that the Southern States are at present engaged in the unpleasant occupation of "writhing and groaning under the ignorant despotism of their colored legislators." This is adduced as a particularly lamentable instance of the evil of considering military men, "ipso facto, the very best for civil offices." It must be acknowledged that it takes a considerable stretch of inventive genius to discover what this and Decoration Day have to do with the writhings and groanings of the South. Perhaps the writer means to lay the blame of the present condition...