Word: object
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...devotees, many of whom deferentially arose when their respective college songs were being sung. The prize won by the University Glee Club was a library of music presented by Mr. R. E. Schirmer. The judges were Professor Horatio W. Parker, Mr. Arthur Mees, and Mr. Arthur W. Woodruff. The object of the competition is to heighten the interest in the work of undergraduate glee clubs. It is very probable that this will be made an annual event...
...contentions on the fact that we have at the present time adequate laws to keep out the undesirable, but if a further restriction were necessary the proper means would not be an untried scheme such as the illiteracy test, but a more rigid enforcement of the existing laws. We object to the illiteracy test in that it fails in its very purpose of cutting down numbers, that it is uncertain in application, and cumbersome and expensive. We further object to the illiteracy test in that it discriminates against certain classes and is therefore class legislation...
Maurice Gruenberg '07, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Edward Ballantine, instructor in Music, will give a violin and piano concert in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock. This is the first entertainment offered by the new Union Music Committee whose object is to procure the best of talent, both in variety and quality, for those Friday night concerts for Union members. It is hoped that a large attendance will attend the first of the series tonight...
...then be formulated. The approaching spring vacation gives an opportunity to co-ordinate and utilize in this work the energies of men returning to their homes. A semi-annual or quarterly smoker is not without its value to a Territorial Club, but what any organization with such an object thrives on is work. And a big part of its work is to put Harvard in touch with the "New Nationalism" which has made Harvard's scope country-wide. The long-delayed pamphlet was admirably planned to aid in this service, and every week's delay means just so much lost...
...headed business man. One in particular is incidentally a young Harvard graduate with a cum laude on his sheepskin, who to my knowledge is not given to making "cringing advances" nor to talking to hear himself talk. Therefore, although in no way implicated myself, I feel called upon to object mildly to the polemic against insurance men as a class, which recently appeared in the CRIMSON. This ill-considered letter leads one to suspect that the difficulty is chiefly with the writer himself. Either he lacks the strength of personality to dismiss gracefully an over-attentive agent, or else...