Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very real threat of Germany. In other words, there must be some binding agreement among the nations which will make aggression on the part of any single nation mean the opposition to it of the entire force of the civilized world. Call such an agreement what you will, object that it is virtually "Article X"; it is nevertheless a fundamental necessity for permanent peace...
...reason for this exclusion? Is it that a man, merely because he is a candidate for distinction, is better able to exercise his own judgment in planning his work than a man with the same marks at the last examinations who is not such a candidate? Is the primary object of the Dean's List to induce men to try for distinction? Or is it considered that a student who made a bad start, but has since shown great improvement, is less to be rewarded than the man who has never had a D but has barely kept in Group...
...becomes evident that on the one hand our equipment is so inadequate that the members of the University are seriously handicapped is their training and on the other that we cannot get the where-withal to remedy the situation, limitation of enrollment must be for us more than an object of academic discussion...
...fine gentlemen, it is not we who should object to their "foot-loose, devil-may-care attitude". If they took an example from us they would throw up their jobs and loaf all day instead of a few hours. How does the bible put it? Pluck the mote out of your own eye first, or something like that. I don't know. I have been too busy furthering civilization to give much thought to it. EDWIN SEAVER...
...object of the expedition will be to study the changes in the heart, circulation, respiration, and chemical composition of the blood which enable the residents of Cerro de Pasco to live there in comfort and to arduous work in the copper-mines, at an altitude in which most people would be able to do comparatively little on account of the rarity of the air. Scientists have frequently spent a few days or weeks at great heights to test the effect of the altitude on themselves, but the studies made on the natives of Cerro de Pasco will be the first...