Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deed of gift that founded the House specified that its activities be directed toward social service. Certainly the day student at Harvard is not a fit object of social service, nor does he desire to be considered as such. But what is more to the point, in providing facilities for commuters, Phillips Brooks has lost its identification, both in reputation and actual practice with the social work it was intended to perform. In the eyes of resident underclassmen, P.B.H. has come to be looked on as a self-sufficient commuters unit, comparable to a House, and, hence, an organization with...
...being held according to the democratic principles which the university intends to foster. In the first place, exactly three-fourths of the candidates were nominated by a committee or council composed solely of upperclassmen: one sophomore, two juniors, and one senior. We do not in any way, however, object to the selections made by the members of that committee. We merely object to having upper classmen select our candidates. We feel that the candidates should be nominated by the Freshmen--every candidate, not merely one fourth of them. There are several ways in which this could be done: the petition...
...same technique of mad imperturbability-as in the scene in which car after car drives up to the house where Julian is going to dinner; the doorman respectfully opens each door, no one emerges, the car drives on. No one says anything, no one is surprised. Oldsters may object that if this is surrealism, so is Alice in Wonderland. Surrealists may retort that in Alice there is nothing fishy...
...President squiggled his signature to an order presented by Cartoonist J. N. ("Ding") Darling, head of the Biological Survey. The order: an amendment to Federal hunting regulations forbidding duck hunting with repeating shotguns capable of carrying more than three shells. Object: a better break for ducks...
When Harvard students, as representatives of a sex noted for their lack of concern for domestic matters, vociferously protest the condition of their rooms. It is time to sit up and take notice. When a bed feels like a corrugated tin roof, when dust covers every object and piles high in neglected corners, irritation reaches a fever pitch. No blame can be attached to the goodies, they do remarkably well considering their human limitations. Rushing about the room, duster and mep in hand, with the speed of an express train is the only possible way for a goodie to clean...