Word: factualism
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Higher education today is too often characterized by a trade-school approach to knowledge. More and more students now rush through a prescribed curriculum as quickly as possible, treading a narrow tight-rope to a job or a professional school. In this era where mere factual knowledge frequently serves as an index of intelligence, the University has symbolized the broad intellectual maturation that learning should...
...submit the above summary because I think the efforts to manipulate our fears have to be combated by factual knowledge, whether it concerns one person of an entire policy. John K. Fairbank '29 Professor of History
...Your article . . . struck me as the most interesting factual biography I have ever read in any magazine. Little did I realize the torment he went through in regard to his family troubles both as a youth and a father. All in all, this fine article left me with nothing wanting, much like some of the immortal O'Neill's writings...
...they do protest and picket, they ought to make their handbills accurate," Mather charged. "Those leaflets they handed out under the American Legion and Protect America League seals were just filled with factual inaccuracies and erroneous references...
...record, Reynolds says, he submitted his manuscript to the tight-lipped British Intelligence, was told they would not even look at it, since as a matter of policy they never give clearance. At the end of the story, DuPre signed his name to the statement: "[This] is my factual story exactly as I told it to Quentin Reynolds...