Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that less than ten years ago. Harvard was essentially a New England institution. This, however, is not true today. For within the last two years, more than one University officer has made a trip to the West and South with the sole object of increasing the enrollment at Harvard from those sections of the country. Harvard is no longer solely a New England university, but a national university. It is becoming more so each year as the efforts of faculty alumni, and present undergraduates to bring men from all parts of the country to Harvard are bearing fruit...
...shoulders of the Assistant Deans falls also the compilation and administration of the Dean's List. All men in Groups I and II go on this list automatically as do any in Group III who apply for a degree with distinction. The primary object of the Dean's List is to give men of proven ability more liberty in the ordering of their work than can be accorded to average students...
...presence in the Conference of two or possibly three Powers who will subordinate their treatment of the problems of the Pacific to European interests gravely endangers its success in accomplishing the object of its authors. The French delegation in particular will insist on discusing at length the limitation of land armaments in relation to the existing causes of unrest and insecurity in Europe. Its policy with respect to political and military problems of the Pacific may serve only as stock-in-trade which it can barter in exchange for advantages nearer at home. But if European perplexities dominate the deliberations...
...presence in the Conference of two or possibly three Powers who will subordinate their treatment of the problems of the Pacific to European interests gravely endangers its success in accomplishing the object of its authors. The French delegation in particular will insist on discusing at length the limitation of land armaments in relation to the existing causes of unrest and insecurity in Europe. Its policy with respect to political and military problems of the Pacific may serve only as stock-in-trade which it can barter in exchange for advantages nearer at home. But if European perplexities dominate the deliberations...
...that anyone would object to the exit of the very sad prohibition jokes--but he resents the implication that he may not make such a joke whenever the spirit so moves him. Humor, however, is irrepressible; and the ridiculousness of the plan itself causes the prohibited to chuckle. As a contributor to the New York Times has pointedly asked, "will we have to have still another law prohibiting jokes about the suppression of prohibition jokes...