Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However worthy be the objective of making fraternities more of a source of benefit to the College than they have been in the past, it is feared that the importance of this series of lectures has been overemphasized. The idea of advantages for the socially elect, which has always prevailed and is contrary to the object of these lectures in included in the proposed plan. It is stated that, although there will be interfraternity hospitality in that members of all other fraternities are invited to attend the lectures at Alpha Chi Rho, a ruling of the Interfraternity Council forbids Freshmen...
...eyes fixed on the pools of shallow water through which she waded. At first this pleased her, for the little mirrors flung back pictures of sky seen through swaying cypresses, with small white clouds tangled in their branches. But presently she became aware of the reflection of an object that projected over her shoulder and looked down into the water, as she was doing. She paused, and the reflection did likewise. Then she recognized its cause as the head of the corpse which hung over her shoulder close...
...most prominent object of the Lampoon attack is the House Plan. The CRIMSON has already made its opposition to this plan, as outlined so far by University authorities, sufficiently clear to render lengthy discussion here unnecessary. Briefly it considers the present social organization of Harvard College, allowing as it does every student unlimited range and absolute freedom to choose and change his associates, greatly preferable to any forced melting pot scheme such as that envisaged by the House Plan. It has been unable to discover, more-over, educational advantages of the new arrangement which might offset this loss in social...
...University which contains it, and in special, of the great contributions to the advancement of science in the large and increasing number of professional anthropologists which the Division is constantly turning out, there can be no doubt as to which of these two purposes should be the primary object in the arrangement of this museum...
...underlying object of the Report is evidently a second Yard. In order to strengthen then this idea the Council advanced a plan of its own for the new building program. But this could only be a corollary to the project of the Yard, and as long as the new Houses are not arranged so as to disrupt the area entirely as an entity the undergraduate plea will be answered. If the idea behind the whole House plan prevents a symmetrical arrangement and a harmonious architecture, there is no definite reason why one unit should stare placidly across a vista...