Word: factualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Editor was able to buy a B-plus in History 32 for twenty dollars. I agree with you that there is good reason for complaint. But you say that he bought his B-plus from Mr. Cramer, while all that he bought from Mr. Cramer was six hours of factual information. You neglect that the CRIMSON Editor then took his six hours of information to the Department of History, and they gave him a B-plus in return. Now, I contend that Mr. Cramer's transaction was a perfectly legal and honorable one, and that...
...businessman, for 25 years treasurer of Houghton Mifflin, and a local historian, the author of Salem in the Seventeenth Century and Salem in the Eighteenth Century, His prose is as clear and dry as a salary check. He has written what is probably the best history that there is, factual and authoritative, of an American port...
...quoted reason for retaining the lecture system is that it offers students an opportunity to come into direct contact with "great minds." But pitifully few lecturers fall into that category; and all seem to be increasingly concerned with the recitation of factual data. The amount of personal contact between student and lecturer in a large lecture course is negligible. One of the most outstanding facts about the lecture system is its impersonalized, off-hand method of presentation. Except as far as they are restrained by a rather fluid attendance requirement, students can take lectures or leave them. Undergraduates walk into...
...fundamental thinking behind the endeavor holds that vast general issues in education can be solved only through factual research: "the frontier of the imponderable retreats as knowledge of the tangible expands...
...plants last week as the workers picked up their copies of the company's newspaper, the Blast, they blinked at his latest example of understanding. The Blast looked more like a union handout than a company house-organ. On the front page was a play-by-play factual account of the convention of District 38 of the steelworkers. The issue carried pictures of the delegates and articles of union interest written by union members...