Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Out of the Indian babel which greeted Lord Lothian came this Gibraltarlike objection :
Of his election, President Eliot said, "The Overseers by a large majority returned my election to the Corporation, adopting this quiet, but as they supposed, decisive way of rejecting it. The main objection to my confirmation came from men who thought it safer to trust a literary man or a...
If the morning services consisted of prayers, scriptures, and perhaps only a hymn, the matter would merit no objection. As it is, however, the anthems and responses which the choir sings three times a week, and the important part it plays in the Sunday services demand conditions which will do...
"There is certainly a place in Harvard for a real Communist Club, and although members of such a body might not be elected on masse to the Porcellian Club. Certainly there would be no objection on he part of the University. Freedom of speech and thought and action are prerogatives...
The second objection to the shorter week with wages unreduced is the difficulty of putting it into practice. Competition would severely injure those businesses which would be sufficiently wealthy to adopt it. Nothing short of an act of Congress could make the plan at all effective, and it is doubtful...