Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...verse I am incapable of criticising; the reviews and the editorials are well-written. I object bitterly to "Mater Felixissima";. perhaps some proof-reader was guilty. But why is it that the various articles produce the impression of being trimmed to a fixed length? Is it due to editorial excisions, or is it a habit acquired in the process of writing compulsory themes...
...given tonight at 7.45 o'clock in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House for the men who have done social service and other work during the past year. This season has been an unusually successful one for Phillips Brooks House, and tonight's meeting will have the double object of bringing about closer cooperation and of ending the year in a suitable...
...Raps Drinkers at Harvard--Matrons and Young Women, He Asserts, Do Not Object to Meeting 'Woozy' Students." So ran the bold headline on the front page of the New York Times. Here President Eliot's attack is divided into two parts,--against the students for misbehaving and against so-called "good society" for countenancing, nay, even abetting the students' actions. But why pick on this one university, and why pick out the matrons and young women of this community of all places? Boston is Boston. If the undergraduates are "woozy" here, think what we would be were Harvard nearer...
...lesson of the nation-wide price-cutting wave is that under-consumption is as objective in reducing prices as is greater production. The Kansas City experiment reveals another method of bringing values back to normal. As yet the scheme has not been applied in other parts of the country. The plan has been to use Kansas City for an object-lesson, which, if heeded, will serve to prevent an equally dangerous situation from becoming acute in other cities. The warning may be enough--if not, legislation such as has proved so successful in Kansas City may have to be enforced...
...with the University of Washington has emphasized the importance of debating as a College activity. In one form or another it has always been a permanent part of college life. It is a matter of tradition that the venerable Hasty Pudding Club at Harvard started with the two-fold object of enabling its members to consume mush and milk, and discuss the problems of the day. The Harvard Union formed in 1831 was a debating club not essentially different from the clubs which exist in practically all schools and colleges of today. The position of debating as an adjunct...