Word: factualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberty, Elliott Roosevelt charged Look with "dirty journalism" for printing the "smear" as a factual report. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, now editor of The Woman, said in her magazine that the Look piece was "glaringly erroneous." She thought it was "a direct attempt to besmirch the . . . memory" of her father...
During the last year, the empirical side of Social Relations has become more and more stressed with in the department. Although personal theories by Professors Parsons, Allport, Sorokin, Murray, Kluckhohn, Zimmerman, and White still predominate in the reading and lectures throughout the Department, six factual and statistical courses were grafted onto the curriculum this year, and there will be more of such courses...
...designed to round out and integrate the student's mastery of history in general and of his special field in particular. Outside reading is assigned and a certain number of special tutorial essays are due each term. The aims of the reading and essays are not only to increase factual knowledge but more particularlly to develop facility in oral and written expression and the habits of independent investigation and thought...
...student at Oxford, who has been carefully selected, is guided and advised, not compelled, by an assigned tutor. His degree is not awarded until he has proved his right to be recognized as having a college* education by taking comprehensive examinations which are largely non-factual in character. This measures the student's present proficiency and not his past success in cramming for numerous quizzes. Oxford has succeeded in encouraging both independence of mind and maturity of judgment...
London newspapers carried a brief factual report of Bolam's conviction, with no hints of vampires. None protested the verdict. The Times, which had printed only official announcements in the Haigh case, even cheered Lord Goddard; it thought its tabloid contemporary guilty of "a plain abuse of the right to report news freely...