Word: factualism
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...NOTE: The CRIMSON editorial recognized the facts stated in this letter. Its assertions were (1) that the English Department had often crowded non-credit tutees in groups under inferior tutors, (2) that it had used the tutorial system, in or out of Honors, as a device for imparting factual Information and preparing students for generals, and (3) that as a result it had filled to exploit the educational possibilities either of the Gill program or of tutorials in general. The decision to restrict credit tutorial (against which the editorial was only incidentally directed) continues to lack what the CRIMSON feels...
...tutorial, in fact, has no business imparting factual knowledge, even as implicit preparation for generals. Its function is clear: there is no other way to give students the tough sort of personal confrontation with Faculty that appears absolutely necessary to the imaginative formation of approaches to a given subject. You cannot do this through a House system; you must do it somewhere...
...have never seen a more factual and objective, honest yet damning, analysis and indictment of Catholic education in America. May the Hesburghs increase and multiply to cover the earth. Thanks to TIME for a real service to the cause of American education. KENNETH E. HENRIQUES, O.F.M. Editor, Way San Francisco...
...Writer Ian Fleming, 53, sniffed to a New York Herald Tribune reporter: "I can't remember any piece of knowledge that Spillane has given me; you've got to be well educated to write good thrillers. I was expensively educated* and I'm proud of my factual knowledge." It was true, conceded Fleming, that his good friend Allen Dulles had "tried out two or three of the technical gimmicks in my books in the laboratories of the CIA, and they didn't work." But this, insisted the man who is reputed to be John F. Kennedy...
...fumbles for the distinction romance, affair, and seduction, but call it what you will, an image of dating at Harvard has clearly emerged from recent literature. From a library of short stories, novels, and factual analyses dating habits, can be extracted a romantic tale of love in Harvard Square...