Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this it was the object of a hot verbal attack on the floor of Congress a week ago. Today's editorial discussed the statement of Prosecuting Attorney Buckner that prohibition cannot be substantially enforced. It said that "where as Americans used to flock to Europe as a tribute to a civilization which we have not attained, we now flood the continent with a disgraceful, thirsty crew that makes the name of America ridiculous in European eyes." The editorial said: "The majority of Americans subscribe to what masquerades under the name of Christianity. Why not make it compulsory and thus insure...
Fortunately disciplinary measures of this sort are rare, at least in a form so extreme. President Lowell has observed that the prime object of the modern college is to stimulate desire for intellectual attainment. It is coming to be a truism that this stimulation can only be achieved by the instructor who abandons the old-fashioned paraphernalia of discipline and meets the student sympathetically on his own ground...
...great alabaster sarcophagus was the most impressive object in sight. Upon it a gold canopy was laid with the gold tipped poles which held it erect in the funeral procession leaning against the sarcophagus...
This speaker was Mayor Walter A. Sims of Atlanta, who, with fitting reference to the late William Jennings Bryan, straightway declared the satisfaction it gave him to welcome to his city any movement that had for its object "the fostering of the religious beliefs of our fathers." When he had done, an Indianian, Mr. Roscoe Carpenter of Indianapolis, was conducted to the rostrum, where he soon pronounced the purpose for which the company was gathered...
...field of study and serving as scholastic headquarters for every undergraduate dealing with these materials. The great English universities, whence proceeded the inspiration for the tutorial system, also exemplify this other excellent method of breathing the breath of life into learning. Neither is the University without its object lessons. Concentrators in Fine Arts come to regard the Fogg Museum as a human and satisfactorily personal place for academic work. The Lowell and Child Memorial Libraries and the Farnsworth Room are evidence that special collections of books are not impossible. The vast silences of great reading rooms and the anatomical appearance...