Word: object
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Handel and Haydn Sosiety, assisted by a complete orchestra and soloists, will give "The Messiah" in Symphony Hall for the benefit of the Children's Hospital, the Convalescent Home of the Children's Hospital, and the Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed Children. In order to promote the worthy object which prompted the giving of this extra performance, the officers of the society are very desirous of making it a big financial success. To induce students to cooperate, rebate tickets have been issued which permit a saving of fifty cents on all tickets purchased at the box office. These tickets...
...southern republics should now see that the American navy may yet prove of great importance for their protection. It is fitting that Harvard, which with its new chair of Latin-American affairs is making a beginning in the educational part of the Pan-American movement, should be an object of inspection to the delegates. It would be highly desirable if an exchange of professors and students with universities of South America could result from this visit...
...graduates, C. S. Thompson '87 being the founder, and P. J. Roosevelt '13 the editor-in-chief. Other editors and contributors are G. von L. Meyer '79, former secretary of the navy, R. W. Child '03, C. Stetson LL.B. '03, and Owen Wister '82. The magazine has for its object the spreading of the preparedness propaganda over the entire country...
Preparedness by half-measures, Mr. Angell maintained, is more dangerous than total unpreparedness. To establish a great military and naval force without formulating a distinct foreign policy is a half-measure. The danger for this country is not that we shall have a force without an object. We have a very definite foreign policy, a policy which perhaps we have yet to show contains no menace towards other nations, but we are pitiably lacking in power to enforce...
...started a year ago by the University library, has already grown to be a considerable one. It contains more than 1,000 books and documents, not including the many foreign newspapers which the library is filing and a collection now being formed in Germany for the University. The object is not to collect a huge mass of useless publications, but to gather together a representative and authoritative assembly of documents that may some day be historically valuable in determining the causes and course of the war. The literature so far collected may be divided roughly into three groups: first...