Word: factualism
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Some people of the Southwest believe that the coyote never dies, some that the yowling beasts can talk, in Indian languages and Mexican-Spanish. Nobody is better qualified to round up all such legends, and more factual reports on the canny coyote, than Texas' shock-haired Professor Dobie, who knows as much about the Southwest as any man (Coro-nado's Children, Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver), and who has, moreover, lectured about it at Britain's Cambridge University (TIME...
...nebulousness" is, of course, a function of the newness of our science: but nebulousness exists on the frontiers of even the most advanced and rigorous of sciences,-- which we are not. Those of a "factual" inclination, therefore, have every right to suspect that they may be unhappy in any science. We do suggest, however, that even at our present relatively primitive level of theoretical development, our work is of some value to those interested in understanding important areas of behavior. Norman Birnbaum Michael Olmsted Teaching Fellows in Social Relations
...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...