Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject of your going to Ireland, and as the Government seems to wish it so much I will naturally sanction it. But I must regret that the occasion chosen should be 'races,' as it naturally strengthens the belief, already far too prevalent, that your chief object is amusement; and races have become so bad of late, and the connection with them has ruined so many young men and broken the hearts thereby of so many fond and kind parents, that I am especially anxious you should not sanction or encourage them. "Since I began this I have heard...
...quite agree with you that it would not look well if it were stated to the public that the only object of my visit to Ireland was on account of the races. It was very kind of you to give me the Order of St. Patrick, which I am only too happy to receive and be installed as a Knight in the Cathedral, as proposed...
...canary size with nine inches of tail); leopard tortoises, monitor lizards (which ravage crocodile nests, eat the eggs), armor-plated pangolins (scaly, ribbon-tongued ant-eater); pottos (small baboon). . . . "There is almost no limit to what might be found," but quality, not quantity, would be the collectors' object...
...Reverend George L. Paine, in his letter in today's CRIMSON presenting the orthodox view in favour of the erection of a chapel as a War Memorial, grants by implication that perhaps the most important object of a War Memorial is to aid in removing the possibility of future...
...rate, whatever may be the cause, the fact is that a chapel with make no appeal to the majority of students, nor in a few years will its function be even remembered, as the present-day attitude towards Mem Hall Shows. If our object is in reality to aid the cause of education against war, let us take practical steps to that end through a Professor's Chair, or international scholarships, or some such means, rather than by raising merely another monument to the hypocrisy and futility of the Human face. Chester T. Lane...