Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is much to be commended in your treatment of Graham Greene, but there are two things that I definitely object to: the caption under the cover portrait . . . and the mention of Greene's remark that he had been up all night drinking with his priest...
Herbert's object is to show his audience (estimated at 850,000) what goes on in the world-why the wind blows, what makes a cake rise, how water comes out of a kitchen tap. To explain rain, he boils water in a coffee pot, compares the steam to clouds, and shows how "rain" will condense on the sides of a glass held over the spout. He demonstrates static electricity with a charged rubber comb, lets it pick up a cluster of cork filings and then release them in a miniature snowstorm the moment they are oppositely charged. Using...
Practice for Perfection. The object of this superheated, though ephemeral, acclaim is a 20-year-old senior from Maumee (pop. 5,500), Ohio, who hardly looks the part of a triple-threat halfback. Off the football field, he is undistinguished and indistinguishable from hundreds of other Princeton undergraduates with their crew cuts and carefully sloppy clothes. He does not feel that he must die for dear old Princeton. A serious youth, he rates his serious interests in this order: 1) friends, 2) studies, 3) football. He plays the game because he likes it;† he plays superlatively well because, starting...
...such results, says Father Carey, are only one phase of Xavier's mission. It is not enough merely to teach men to protect themselves. More important is to instill in them the Christian principle of helping others. "The object of the school," says he, "is not only to train men for intelligent leadership. It is to promote God's law on the dignity and brotherhood...
...remodeled so as to make one big assembly hall out of it." The letter received hundreds of replies. In 1940, when Albert de Rhode '04 wrote, "Memorial Hall should be cherished for what it represents, not for what it may seem to the present generation. We shouldn't object to an ancestor's portrait because of his large nose...