Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irishmen have always liked to carry clubs, liked to use them in a fight. Their national game, hurling, gives them a chance to do both. The object of hurling is to belabor a lively little leather-covered ball down a 140-yard field into a goal. Each goal has a cross bar eight feet high; when the ball goes under the cross bar, it counts 3 points; over it counts 1. The implements, heavy shillalahs with a blade at one end, are "hurleys." Their resemblance to shinny sticks has caused hurling to be thought of as a form of field...
...half hours the customs men found nothing not listed on the declarations. It was understood that a tipster in Europe, greedy for the Federal reward of 25% of any fine collected, had set the agents on the Mackay's trail on the chance that some undeclared object might be found...
...connoisseur, a collector of personalities. Among his subjects he browses as an antiquarian among his antiques. However, and in this the antiquarians, the collectors are more fortunate than the Vagabond, he cannot furnish his den with live or stuffed specimens. In the first place the subjects might object and in the second place too much of a good thing is too much. And so he must content himself with examining his objects "on the hoof...
...object of the Guide in to furnish students with the frank opinions of other students who have taken the courses being offered. Where no one deemed capable of rendering a clear and unprejudiced opinion of a particular course could be found, that course has been omitted from the Guide...
...said, "The faculty feels that emphasis should be placed not on petty policing by hour exams and reports, and on accumulating grades, but on the total training in constructive thinking on business problems which the student is receiving. Hour exams will be given only in November, with the object of weeding out obvious misfits and men in need of assistance. As in the Law School, emphasis will be placed on final exams. Instructors will also be called upon for estimates of their student's ability...