Word: factualism
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...report states: "Most lectures, especially in the large courses, confine themselves to getting across a certain number of facts or ideas. More often than not the student's role is reduced to the mechanical nothing of factual material which then gathers dust until the final examination...
History 1, the old grand survey pre-requisite for concentrators, was eliminated last year. The replacement, Social Sciences 1 does not pack in the solid factual background of its predecessors; moreover, it cannot be counted for concentration...
McNaughton's neat bow ties, shell-rimmed glasses and pertinent quotes from Shakespeare, Jefferson and the Bible became expected parts of the commentary. His factual analysis in a Missouri baritone contrasted sharply with the tension of the testimony...
More disturbing than a number of factual errors is Wagner's misinterpretation of events to suit his purposes. He turns the undergraduate Franklin D. Roosevelt into a democrat whose interests were "all work and no sham...
Author Schulberg estimates that "at least 50%, and maybe more, of the book is true." Fitzgerald fans will therefore judge The Disenchanted as a piece of spiritual (if not entirely factual) biography, but readers without their special interest will take it for the careering, hell-in-a-hack excitement of its story...