Word: factualism
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...have to do to get in to the Harvard Summer School is send in a one-page sheet of factual information or show up on registration day. It helps to be a college student, but the summer school makes plenty of exceptions...
...strategy has been to try to impress all factions of his committee with the thoroughness and fairness of the staff work. Southern Democrats, under some political pressure from home to back Nixon, have been relatively qui et so far, but many are leaning toward impeachment because of the staffs factual presentation of evidence. The committee last week spent a day on the illegal secret bombing of Cambodia, mainly to mollify the more liberal Democrats, even though that issue can scarcely gain widespread support as a separate impeachment article...
...business of the Faculty Council, Fox is an orderly, precise man who can spend hours writing a letter or memorandum to make sure he gets the wording exactly right, and he likes to work far away from the public eye. But he seems to know, quietly, every factual detail having anything to do with the Faculty...
...legal process took so long though that third-year student DeFunis was scheduled to graduate this spring no matter how the Supreme Court ruled. To the disappointment of the braced opponents, five of the Justices seized on this factual quirk and declared the case moot because DeFunis' law-school status no longer presented a controversy. The minority contended that the court was really "straining to rid itself of this dispute...
...realization of this fact may account for Harvard's recent cooperative attitude, Sharratt said. He also attributed the University's willingness to respond to tenants to the bad publicity it was receiving. RTH's 1970 proposal included "a factual report of how [Harvard] had done wrong," complete with 22 pictures of building violations in the area--broken windows, rotting porches, exposed wiring, crumbling walls and ceilings. "Harvard's ago was hurt," Sharratt said. "On one level, it was a question of public relations. And there was a moralistic level...