Word: fact
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...accuse all Harvard) of wanting us to be sure of second place, since we can't get first. Do these men adequately represent the college sentiment? We were told at the mass meeting that except Yale, the other colleges can not fairly compete with us; yet some how the fact is that they do, and beat us in the bargain. Harvard is not in such a position that she can afford to be exclusive. Our action in foot ball, though somewhat justifiable, has aroused too much ridicule and contempt all over the country to allow us to go further. There...
...would certainly be an agreeable spectacle to watch the delusive exultation of Yale at rolling up every year an enormous increase by percentage, Harvard meanwhile quietly outstripping her in actual increase. The explanation of such a process, however, would belong to the higher mathematics. And in point of fact it is the rate of gain which throws light upon the future. The number of men from the south and west rose from 44 in Harvard '91, to 49 in Harvard, '92; and at Yale in the same classes from 45 to 54. The difference between a gain...
...number of students at Yale from Connecticut and New England is nearly stationary and the per cent from the west is increasing, while the per cent. of such men at Harvard is more nearly stationary, Yale is laying a surer foundation for future growth than Harvard. Now the fact is that Yale started much ahead of Harvard in the west. In 1820 we did not have a single student from beyond the Alleghanies, while Yale had many from beyond the Hudson river and even from the Western Reserve. Since that time Harvard has grown faster than Yale in every...
...will beg, the employer only those who want work, and the furnisher of homes only those who want homes. But if we are to work in any one direction we can perhaps do most good by improving tenements and making the surroundings of the laborers more cheerful. From the fact that out of six hundred children of confirmed criminals educated by a society only five turned out badly, that in large cities more than two thirds of the applicants for help simply want work, Mr. White feels confident that the problems of pauperism can be solved. This cannot be done...
...business ability, will accrue to the laboring classes, if they look properly to their own interests. This theory of distribution is certainly the most hopeful one for labor and humanity that has ever been advanced, and it will in time the lecturer thought, be proved the nearest to economic fact...