Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Authors. Julian Street was born in Chicago 47 years ago (he always knows what he is writing about). He worked on a Manhattan newspaper, married and soon set out to be his own literary boss. Painstaking and deliberate, he fixed upon Author Booth Tarkington as an object for deep admiration and their subsequent friendship had much to do with the Streets' removal to Princeton when it came time for their son to attend college. There, pensively fingering cigars, graciously suffering undergraduate interruptions, Julian Street produced his famed Rita Coventry and the O. Henry Memorial Prize story...
Speed was no object for they had 2,060 miles to go; getting there, from Hampton Roads, Va., to Colon, Panama, was the main thing. None the less, the two big seaplanes vanished over the southern horizon seven minutes apart, droning for Cape Hatteras at a smart 80 knots or so. The destroyer Overton, the minesweeper Sandpiper and cruiser Saukee, strung down the Atlantic and stationed off Cuba, turned on their searchlights as dusk fell, tilted their beams at agreed angles into the drizzly night. The cruisers Raleigh and Cincinnati and the minesweeper Swan, stationed at intervals in the Caribbean...
...said that higher education has little benefit for the practical business man. Yet here is a railroad coming to not one but several universities with the object of clearing up a little matter of grammar: the fact that the universities furnished no satisfaction has nothing to do with the case--the mountain did come to Mohamet. Time was when the complete equipment for a railroad magnate's desk consisted of an atlas, a silver spike, and a box of coronas; now one must have at least Roget's Thesaurus and the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The influence of the cloisters is unmistakable...
...student's part in college life and scholastic activity will be considered at the national assembly. The first problem will be to find a means of establishing closer contact beween faculty and undergraduates in American colleges; the second, to find a way of making intellectual attainment the chief object of college education and to give recognition to the man achieving it; and third, to make a re-appraisal of the sources of a college's claim to greatness with the emphasis placed upon the development of individuals rather than the amassment of great numbers of students. In connection with...
...Higgins into a perfect specimen of Dutchess Britannica-triumph for Mr. Higgins' theory of phonetics. As the outside of a beautiful Duchess, the love-starved waif finds herself in a cruel predicament. She is more woman than artist, would rather sustain a black eye than the impersonal, scientific objectivity to which she is subjected by the experimenting male. The artist-scientist becomes conscious of the female only when the woman-object threatens to fight him on his own premises, yelling "bloody...