Word: facts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...degree of culture can afford to be ignorant of the writings of the great Florentine. Moliere has never suffered for want of hearers; but it is chiefly noticeable that the merely comical, rather than the serious parts, were most enjoyed by those who flocked to hear Mr. Bocher, - a fact that sheds no imperishable lustre on the intellectual superiority of our students; but when students enter college at sixteen or seventeen, perhaps nothing better can rightly be expected...
...often complain that signers are not to be found in such numbers as the justness of their cause seems to demand. Perhaps the number of the papers has something to do with these complaints, but one great cause of unwillingness to give liberally is to be found in the fact that the givers have only the faintest idea where all the money goes to. The Hokey Pokey Club need money to purchase new uniforms, or to play the Yale Club. A subscription-paper is passed around, the club appear in their uniforms, or the newspapers chronicle the result...
...prepared a table of statistics of the circulation of a number of college papers, the object being to exhibit its own superiority in this respect. We have no hesitation in saying that, so far as this paper is concerned, the statement was entirely false, and inquiries have developed the fact that the statistics of other papers are equally erroneous. We say this merely to relieve our exchanges from the necessity of further copying a worthless item...
...next speaker was Carl Schurz, who, after alluding to the fact that he received last year the degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard, and therefore he was in this point, if not in public station, ahead of President Hayes, and after communicating the interesting news that the present administration intended to smooth the path of the scholar in politics somewhat, paid the following tribute to Professor Lowell...
...view is to reclaim the uncivilized members of their town, and eventually of the United States, from the depths of barbarism to which they have sunk, - they wish to make a nation of gentlemen. They argue that it can be done in this way: it is a generally admitted fact that good manners spring naturally from a good heart; is not the converse of this true, that a good heart can be produced by educating the manners to the proper degree of perfection...