Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Byington '24 of Sao Paulo, Brazil, has written for two copies of "The History and Traditions of Harvard College" that sections of it may be translated into Portuguese. He says in part "my object in doing this is to give Brazilians an idea of an American University in general and Harvard in particular...
...doubtful if many of the Freshmen who today face their first encounter with the Harvard language examinations question the value and validity of these tests any more than they question the necessity of College Boards or the object of laying their photographs before the admissions committee. Language requirements, like college boards, are there and must be accepted as such by all who aspire to complete identity with the college community. But even though the majority may accept them without further inquiry and all must accept them somehow or other, there are bound to be a few restless spirits among those...
...treaty is a speaking solemnly of undisputed things. It is something of a feat to have persuaded so many nations (14 of them besides the U. S.) to speak solemnly in concert about anything. The difficulties in the way of getting such a treaty ratified are: 1) Some people object to solemn-speaking on the ground that the more solemn a thing is the more unreal it is; 2) Some people object on the ground that the more solemn a thing is the more binding it is-the more it may commit the U. S. to an international course beyond...
...necessary to recognize in the [Kellogg] pact lack of any obligations for disarmament, which are the only genuine guarantee of peace; the insufficiency and indefiniteness of the formula itself for the prohibition of war; and the existence of several reservations having the object to suspend in advance even appearance of obligations toward the cause of peace...
...later he was presented with that very object by M. Léon Meyer, Mayor of Havre. It was a gold pen, nearly a foot long, a half inch in diameter, surmounted by a turquoise, and made by famed Jeweler André Falize of Paris. Visitor Kellogg accepted it graciously, found it heavy, noticed his initials engraved upon it, and read the inscription on its green leather case: Si Vis Pacem Par Pacem (If you wish for Peace, prepare for Peace...