Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem he could not ignore confronted Dean Hawkes when, after months of quiet sleuthing, Editor Arnold Beichman of Columbia's Spectator and another senior presented him with evidence of "financial irregularities" in the management of two student dances. Object of the charges was their classmate Robert M. Tierney, editor-in-chief of the Columbian (yearbook), senior member of the Student Board of Representatives, last year's president of his class. Last week Dean Hawkes announced that he had asked Senior Tierney "not to register for the spring session...
...mistaken, she does not weep, and pity herself for twenty minutes. I have been wary in the past of placing any superlatives on Miss Sideny's ability, but she shows in "Good Dame" that she is as capable an actress as can be found in Hollywood today. One may object to her sensual lips (which is childish, or one may dislike her complacent sniggering, but one will have to admit her superiority to any other actress in the movies today. We say to---with the dramatic critics who claim that the stage is responsible for the geniuses of the movies...
...general I heartily agree with your estimate. But it seems to me that the question is incorrectly put. You take the point of view that the undergraduates should concern themselves with Chaucer the poet (I agree!), while graduates should be principally occupied with historical and linguistic matters (here I object!). Let me assure you that for a graduate Chaucer is, or should be, also primarily a poet, as he is, or should be, for the professors, congressmen, the janitor of the building, etc. If anything, he should be more poet to the graduates, the teachers-to-be, lest they later...
...Japanese program is not a success financially, the people of that country will object to and throw out of power their militaristic leaders. If financial trouble arises, it will mean the wreck of the Japanese state for some years...
...arguments against military and naval science are many and diverse. There are some who oppose them on philosophical grounds, who object to the fact that a jingo spirit is kept in strength and energy by the intrusion of professional soldiers into college classrooms. This view they have supported with great insight and appropriate vigour, but its quarrel with the present is so fundamental that their efforts have not met with much success. There is, however, no necessity to confine the attack on military and naval science to these grounds. Two other arguments have been presented; no answer to either...