Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like sort is the problem that has long confronted the Federal courts and square-jawed Thomas James Walsh, Arch-inquisitor of the Senate Committee on Public Lands, in the strange transactions of three oil companies remotely connected with the Oil Scandals. The ultimate object of reviewing these transactions is to expose the supposed source of the Liberty Bonds which Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair is known to have given Albert Bacon Fall, defamed Secretary of the Interior who leased Teapot Dome to Sinclair. But the immediate motive, when Inquistor Walsh renewed his inquiries last week, seemed compounded as much of professional...
...president of the various institutions he visited and to acquaint them with the aims and work of the Business School. His next duty was to interview prospective students who were contemplating going to a business school, and to talk with them about the Harvard Business School. His last object was to visit two builders supply conventions held at Dayton, Qhio, and Indianapolis, Indiana...
...parents who keep their son out of college a year after he is prepared are often moved by a belief that he would otherwise be at a social and athletic disadvantage, and this is so far true that if such things were the main object of college the motive would be serious. A student younger than his classmates is usually somewhat less prominent in these matters; but by no means always. Some years ago a father sought advice about sending his son, to Harvard College at 17. He was advised to do so, but warned of the social disadvantage. Wisely...
...would doubtless approve, and that was the tradition of frequent change. We certainly have that tradition here, for we have been continually making experiments, and we hope wise ones. We have, indeed, some reason to suppose so, because they are being made in a definite direction with a constant object. That object, so far as the students are concerned, is to provoke an ambition and cultivate a habit leading to self-education,--the only education that is later self-starting and self -propelling. For this purpose another departure has now been made, a some what surprising one, yet designed...
...fight. There is no good reason why one should not decorate his billet doux and otherwise to his heart's content providing the posters bear no improper sentiments. And of course there is no good reason why he should, especially if the Postal authorities object. However, much as one may dislike propaganda of any sort plastered over his private correspondence, the line here seems to be rather arbitrarily drawn...