Word: objections
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trustees of the estate object to the use which the University is now making of the $5,500,000 already received by it, and maintain that the intention of Mr. McKay is being defeated by carrying on the engineering courses under the roof of Technology instead of in the buildings and under the sole direction of the University...
Everyone doubtless knows of the man who burned down his house in order to roast his pig. His problem symbolizes some aspects of our war problem. Let the roasting of the pig stand for the object of a war, let the man stand for the American people, and the house for the American civilization which is a-building. Now let us suppose the man is deliberating whether he will roast the pig, and, if so, whether by setting fire to the house. Similarly, the first question for the American people to settle is, "What are the objects...
...will give the team a dinner at the Club; the men who have represented Yale in football, baseball, track, and crew, or who have been awarded a "Y", are, for the first time in Yale's athletic history, combining to do honor to a team, and with the further object of founding the Yale Varsity Club. Walter Camp, the father of Yale football and baseball; Bob Cook, the father of Yale rowing; Harry Brooks and Charlie Sherrill, the fathers of Yale track athletics; "Pudge" Heffiefinger, "Dutch" Carter, Fred Stevenson, captain of the '88 crew, which held the record...
...zoology lecturer held up a small object in his hand. "Gentlemen, this is the brain. With the training of it our whole system of education is concerned, from kindergarten through the higher universities." The brains of his auditors were impressed and a new groove was made on them to record this latest knowledge...
...lose its civilization in the blast of war or contrive some means of stopping it," President Lowell remarked at a dinner at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, Ill., Saturday evening, held by a committee of 70 for the stablishment of a state organization of the League to Enforce Peace. The object of the dinner was "to consider a program for a permanent league of nations to become effective at the end of the present war." President Lowell will return to Cambridge today...