Word: factual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years President Lowell in his reports has called upon the preparatory schools for better preparation, not so much factual as mental. The change in the curriculum of St. Paul's could not have been better designed to meet this demand. By giving the schoolboys of higher than average ability a taste of the honors course, of tutorial work, on independent effort, not only those actually partaking of the advantage will benefit, but the whole school body as well will become reasonably familiar with the collegiate educational atmosphere. Consequently, on becoming undergraduates their minds will react more quickly...
...salt. The first can only be eradicated by closer contact between English and American tutors. Unless these men here learn the subtle refinements of what must be considered a worthy calling they are so many drudges driving bored students through what is, at best, a gray corridor hung with factual etchings, at worst, an Elizabethan maze, made of barbed wire. The tutorial system is as good as its tutors. And when the tutors become sufficiently interested, in and faithful to tutoring as a creditable and worthy life work instead of a temporary means of paying term bills while a graduate...
Arthur Sears Henning, Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, whose despatches are often more fantastic than factual, made the following report: "When an Illinois man discussing the matter [Senatorial candidacy of slush-tainted Frank L. Smith, Rep.] with the President remarked that 'Brennan is tarred with the same stick,' referring to the fact that the Democratic candidate for Senator accepted $15,000 from Insull, Mr. Coolidge turned upon him with that cold blue eye of his and snapped: 'But Brennan wasn't regulating Insull's properties...
...severity of minute philological and factual study is condemned. In the course of two years of such (and other sorts of) graduate study, I have never yet failed to find in any graduate student a similar spark of rebellion against some of this "arid scholarship". Even the "sorriest" of the lot had rather that the desert were not quite so broad, nor so dry.--Many such students die of thirst, and many turn back. But there are always some who see "the sense of going further," and who have the mental courage to go, believing that the knowledge and discipline...
Army-Man Dalton is not to be confused with able Cleveland Businessman H. G. Dalton, President of the Interstate Steamship Co., who was appointed by President Coolidge last October to make a factual report on the then inextricable Shipping Board tangle. What sagacious Shipper Dalton's report was, if any; when it was published, if ever; what action based upon it was subsequently taken...