Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...property of families of early Standard Oil partners, Harkness, Pratt, Brewster, Payne, Flagler, Rogers, etc. On these, Mr. Rockefeller Jr. confidently counts for support. S. H. B. Payne, however, came out for Col. Stewart. The Payne Whitney and Pratt estates remained doubtful, last week. The University of Chicago (object of many Rockefeller benefactions) was expected to use its 30,000 shares for the-good-of-the-family...
...means of a prism placed over the object glass of the telescope, photographs of stellar spectra have been taken at Harvard for the last forty years. The light of any star of sufficient brightness in the field of view is spread out into a band, showing characteristics by which the spectra can be classified into various groups...
...answered. It will patently no more foster an atmosphere of common intellectual effort than the present system, since the intent is to prevent any large concentration of men working on the same subjects. We must then assume that diversity of intellectual appreciation, like breadth of social experience, is the object of the House plan. In other words it is expected that an art student, a mathematician, a football player, and a CRIMSON editor will gather informally in the new Houses and each impart his special knowledge toward the common edification. The smallest experience of student gatherings and student conversation ought...
Once more do the colleges make use of the methods and instruments of big business, but the most apprehensive could scarcely object to the plan just announced by President Angell of Yale. This is an arrangement for the group insurance of the faculty, administrative and other staffs of the college to the amount of $5,000,000, part of the premiums to be paid by the university and part, after the first month, by the beneficiaries...
...Fundamentally, confidence has been restored and Germany has been reestablished as a going concern on a relatively high level of economic activity. From the outset, moreover, the Dawes Plan realized its primary object by securing the expected reparations payments and transfers to the creditor powers...