Word: objected
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attitude of the shrunken board of editors with regard to the Illustrated's duty is sane and therefore commendable. There is no denying that "if Harvard in peace is an object of pictorial interest, Harvard at war is memorable." So, with an all-picture line-up, there is no prose in the first number to criticize except the explanatory editorial on page one, which includes a split infinitive...
...object is to extend to workingmen opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education, through afternoon and evening classes and lectures; and to bring into mutually helpful contact, workingmen, students, and teachers. To this end, courses are offered in primary, intermediate, grammer, academic, and in some cases, college grades...
...Dyke began his talk by emphasizing the seriousness of our present position. "We must think it out and fight it out from the beginning. We are conscientious objectors, not in the narrow sense of those who object to fighting but in the larger sense of those who object to the injustice, tyranny, and barbarism of Germany," he stated. At this point, Dr. Van Dyke brought forward a number of arguments proving that the war was long premeditated by Germany, and that the assassination of the Austrian Archduke was the means and not the cause for its origin. He further showed...
...Government a series of tests on prospective army and navy aviators. The work, which will be under the direction of Dr. E. H. Burtt, of the psychology staff of the University, will be carried on in connection with the United States Aviation Corps, and will have as its main object the establishment of data upon which to base future examinations...
...second Liberty Loan drive is on. The second offensive waged by the American people as a whole against the German government has been started. The ultimate object is the destruction of the German armies through supplies of men and munitions on the western front. The immediate objective, however, is three billions of dollars pledged to the government before November...