Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proverbial log supplied the desk and chairs; it was the intellect involved that made the college. The efforts that are now being made to improve the methods of instruction in Harvard University, and to stimulate intellectual ambition in a large proportion of the undergraduates, are very costly, but the object is well worth the cost. When we ask how this is to be met, there is but one answer: unrestricted funds...
...humble Aesculapides I ought not to object to the letter of Mrs. H. S. Lanpher criticizing your "long and detailed description of diseases" as "unwholesome for family consumption." It is precisely such an attitude that facilitates the spread of disease, and is not that to our advantage...
...Some people may object to the word socialistic," he said, "which perhaps bears a different connotation in their minds, from that which I give it here. But whatever we call it, the idea is that law in this future era will not be concerned with judging man as an isolated individual, but in relation to the society he exist...
...strangely self-restrained girl, capable of extraordinary devotion to a uninspiring priest. Why did not her perception of and longing for the nobler love render the beautiful and gifted Carlota, so comprehending of herself and others, impervious to a love far from satisfying? And how could Philip, the object of the love, once awake to human passion, return so inexorably to a calm monastic prison? Ever conscious of "The Cloister and the Hearth" with its profound tragedy of two ever-faithful lovers, the reader finds in the story of Philip and Carlota little to arouse emotion...
...trials for the annual medal contest are open to all undergraduates. The competition is sponsored by the French Department as well as by the Debating Union and as usual will deal with some object pertaining to French affairs. This year the subject for debate is: Resolved, That a levy on capital as a solution of France's present financial difficulties is undesirable. The trials will consist of five minute speeches on either side of the question...