Word: ipso
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...drafted in that the high contracting parties and the league itself may be two separate entities. With all due respect to Senator Knox, it is the custom of states making a treaty to call themselves the high contracting parties and each state signing or adhering to the treaty becomes, ipso facto, a high contracting party. The writer has just had occasion to examine and copy parts of the actual texts of about fifty treaties for the last four centuries, and it is evident that the term "high contracting parties" is used in the same sense as the members...
...that the undergraduate scholars work solely for grades and that they are not truly interested in scholarly endeavor. Such a contention is not true. Of course marks stand as an index of proficiency in scholarship, and naturally if a man is striving to attain a high standard, he will ipso facto receive high grades. But the high grades are not the sole aim and object of his work. When a candidate for a paper or, an athletic team reports, he is not prompted by any feeling of altruism, but is out to do his best to gain a position...
Harvard men must remember that "ipso facto" they are being watched. And to no small degree is the opinion of Harvard formed from the impressions given by Harvard men. The so-called 1913 Basketball team not only hurt themselves, they wounded Harvard in a most vulnerable spot...
...reasonableness and devotion. In the first place philosophy must be loyal to the facts of life and of the universe as proved by science, for in this loyalty to reason lies the one source of truth. If fidelity to the facts of life is always maintained, philosophy will gain ipso facto that sweet reasonableness which is so essential. But without devotion philosophy is helpless; the entire consecration and devotion of reflective thinking to the great mysteries of life alone will point out the true goal of philosophy--the saner and nobler guidance of the individual and of the human race...
Andover Theological Seminary is affiliated with Harvard University, not merged with it, as has been reported. Andover students become ipso facto Harvard students and can take Harvard courses towards Andover degrees, while Harvard students may also take Andover courses towards University degrees. Andover professors and Harvard teachers likewise in the same manner co-operate with the corresponding institution...