Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact it threatens to become a real American art. Mr. Dooley will be forced to give up the magazines completely. "What I object to", he says, "is whin I pay tin or fifteen cents for a magazine, expectin' to spind me avenin' improvin' me mind with the latest thoughts in advertising, to find more thin a quatter of the book devoted to literachoor". He could already find some literature in the advertisements. There is poetry in the line "meaty marrowy oxtail joints" used to describe a well-known soup. A prose rhythm of unusual smoothness is discovered in an automobile...
...with undergraduate activities. In this country, an English student, said, one goes to college not to develop himself, but to distinguish himself. Since the road to distinction leads at present through athletics and "activities" rather than through studies, a distortion of emphasis naturally results. A student's object becomes to "make" a club, team, or organization; and he feels content when he has attained that object...
...University Reception Committee appointed last night ten members of the Freshman class to form an Entertainment Committee which will have as its object the welcoming of all visiting teams that come to the University to play Freshman teams. The members of the committee follow. Francis Lowell Barton of Boston, chairman: Charles Lewis Harding Jr. of Dedham. Frank Paul Kane of Radner, Pa. Joseph Wheelock Lund of Boston Edward Walker Marshall of Pertland. McDudley Merrill of New York, N. Y. Frederick Strong Moseley Jr. of Boston. Henry Parrish 2nd of New York, N. Y. Albert Hart Stafford of Newtonville, Charles Folsem...
...Entente article suggests the formation of a "sur-Parlement," or over-Parliament, in which French and British members would deal with questions affecting both countries. In default of a Franco-British Parliament, M. Bure suggests frequent meetings between British M. P.'s and French Deputies with the object, not only of strengthening the Entente, but of assimilating the foreign policy of each country toward the other. It is understood that such meeting will be arranged for by the French and British Governments...
Mosque and State. The Angora Assembly has decreed the separation of mosque and state, and so the Caliph, successor to Mohammed and Haroun al Raschid, will no longer have any temporal power, such as his predecessors had. It was feared that the Moslems in India would object to this sudden move, but a congress of Moslem religious teachers in Calcutta has wired approval to Mustapha Kemal Pasha, calling him the " Renovator of the Caliphate," and accepting the new status of the Caliph. The present Caliph's " holy beard" has just reached the length required for sultans, and was blessed...