Word: factualism
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...University's motto applies to present as well as past truth. But present truth is more awkward than past and a concern for factual teaching is sometimes a simple disguise for evasion of present truth. Yours very sincerely, Marcel Francon, Instructor in Romance Languages...
...criticism levelled at Professor Lake for "teaching a work with emphasis on its modern practical aspects rather than on its purely factual and historical content" is summed up in Gradgrind's "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root up everything else...
Providence, R.I., Mar. 3--Declaring that he had been criticized at Harvard because he insisted on teaching a course with emphasis on its modern practical aspects rather than on its purely factual and historical content, Kirsopp Lake former professor of History at Harvard, delivered an address on American education to the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa last night...
...indeed men in every walk of his life, for the book does not alone with the writers. Perhaps the work is not of great lasting value, because it may not be great, but certainly it is of intense interest, and significant for its change from the well-worn factual autobiography...
...farmhouses in the hills of Connecticut, the Beards turn out their fat, factual pamphlets on governments, armies, women and businessmen. In a huge, drab, wooden building that was once a boys' school, Charles and Mary Beard, now engaged on a history of the past ten years, live in virtual retirement with no telephone or radio. But each winter they visit Washington, D. C., where Charles Beard sees his good friends Senators Norris and La Follette, Justice Brandeis, Secretary Wallace, and keeps an educated eye open for signs that Congressmen and Senators are doing what his books show they have...