Word: objective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baseball game instead of the nineteenth century's dance around the Liberty Tree, which involved holding hands and skipping about and jumping frantically to get hold of a piece of a wreath. This, surely, is progress. And in the nineteenth century President Lowell exulted "What a glorious object is a Senior on Class Day to a maiden of sixteen." Today, there will probably not be a girl under eighteen in Harvard Yard, and this, too, is progress. It is the sort of progress that can create confidence in the future of Harvard College and in the future--all the more...
...something more than two weeks a year, a small estate on the Thames River, just above New London, Connecticut, is busier than the bar at a class reunion. Here, in complete seclusion, two dozen Harvardmen devote their waking hours to the achieving of the one supremely traditional object of Crimson sports: beating Yale in the four-mile crew race late in June...
...Torah, a parchment scroll containing the Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible), is a sacred object, seldom taken from the synagogue...
Hold It! is one of those musicals where expense is no object, and presumably entertainment isn't one either. Bits of the dancing aside, it offers $200,000 worth of tedious bad taste about a young man who plays the heroine in a varsity show; his picture (submitted as a prank) wins a Hollywood beauty contest...
This fellow Unus, new to the Circus this year, possesses a remarkable right forefinger which he combines with a remarkable sense of balance to perpetrate some strange and wondrous feats. To be precise, he places his right forefinger on a globe-shaped object which is attached by a rod to a table that stands about three feet above the ground. On his right forefinger Unus then proceeds to stand. This is the basic formation, but it has a number of variations, the final and most terrifyingly delightful one taking place at a considerably greater distance from the ground, and involving...