Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy, in the first place, is one of conservation. The editors feel, and have in this the concurrence of many members of the faculty, that there is a need and definite place at Harvard for a publication whose ends are not primarily literary nor informative, whose object is sane criticism and the intelligent expression of opinion...
...system of local government--not the officials working under it--was the object of Dr. Holcombe's censure. "Many of our county officials are admirable men," he stated. "Their usefulness to the public is diminished by the defects of the system under which they work...
Whether they like it or not, U. S. readers-and especially Midwesterners-will admit that The Folks rings true, has no perceptible alloy in its honest realism. Its cumulative power lies in the fact that it is written straight, with no scintilla of satire or sentimental sympathy. Foreigners might object to the almost total absence of ideas in the book. To them a U. S. reader could reply that the Midwest is the U. S.'s backbone, not its brain...
...first few months of the Freshman year are exceedingly difficult and should not be dealt with lightly. The primary object is to remain and do the required work; then may come the outside activity. Well it is to remember that when firmly established scholastically one has more of a chance at being a success in the one field at which he may persevere for some time, than if at first he tries his hand at all the jobs the pretty cards proclaim...
...York Ship News Reporters Association. The organization's only function is to maintain headquarters in a long, squat building at the Battery, the noisy tip of Manhattan Island. The building, hard by the Customs House, is called the Barge Office. There a Western Union printer reports on every floating object that passes Quarantine, eight miles down New York Harbor from the Battery...