Word: factual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those needs do not encroach upon her function as a university of culture and intelligence, Harvard faces the future as honestly and with as much pride as she remembers her past. And to do both is fundamentally necessary in an age of Mussolinis and mechanics, plebiscites and prohibition, factual fancies and fanciful facts...
...Ideal, not factual content", "by thought, not by rote" and all the rest. It is suggested, not that we try to act toward Harvard without prejudice, which would be calamitous, but that we try to learn about Oxford without prejudice. We are not after all trying to make over Oxford...
JAPAN FROM WITHIN?J. Ingram Bryan-Stokes ($4.50). In a cold, factual, scholastic way, Dr. Bryan has given an admirable summary of the present conditions of Japan; and, by including historical background, he has clearly presented the remarkable progress made by that country. In a word, he makes the reader understand Japan but not the Japanese...
England long ago called upon the full strength of her scholarship to make and continue the British Dictionary .of National Biography. Germany has her Allegemeine Deutsche Biographic. These and similar gigantic works in other countries, though they treat of their subjects, however distinguished, only in factual outline and leave the delineation of men in their entirety to their Boswells, are complete and authoritative basis upon which studies of mankind will be made in the far future...
Despite adverse criticism to the effect that Mr. Churchill has waited until after the deaths of Lords Kitchener and Fisher in order to attack them, it is abundantly clear that he has written a fair, searching and important factual narrative on the causes which made the Dardanelles campaign necessary, and on the ofcial conduct of that ill-fated venture. Mr. Churchill might well answer his critics that if historians had refrained throughout the ages to write of Philip of Macedon, the first great military strategist, because he was dead, nothing would now be known...