Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything but himself. I merely turned it over to the Harvard police to clear myself of any responsibility in the matter. I do not think that anyone in their right mind could resent the legitimate purchase of a priceless work of art by a great university whose only object in acquiring it was its preservation as part of our artistic heritage from the past...
That men who were or still are "prominent in undergraduate life" should object is fairly obvious. They have succeeded in athletics or other extra-curricular activities and have reaped and enjoyed the rewards--fame and homage, election to senior fraternities, appointment to class offices, picture-in-the-paper, "done most for Yale," and all that sort of thing. It is unreasonable to expect them to see anything wrong in a system that has been so generous to them. It is reasonable for them to forget that there are hundreds, possibly thousands of young men--and it is this majority which...
...that the Loan Fund will be increased to allow students to borrow $900 instead of $750 for the two year curriculum is an indication that the Baker Foundation is aiming at an efficient solution to the problem of cost of education. It is also clear that the fundamental object of education in business administration differs widely from that of the cultural and professional education gained in other branches of the University...
...overburdensome except in a few cases. It is altogether justifiable according to the universal and inevitable need for more highly paid teachers. The significance of the step lies in the fundamental difference between an educational system with an immediate commercial point of view and one which has as an object, the development of the mind. To make the student an integral part of a business organization is altogether in keeping with an American capitalistic educational theory...
Winnings. Organized contractors (manufacturers) who employ only union labor, agreed to a 40-hour, five-day week. The union agreed to hold in abeyance for a year its demand for wage increases, unemployment insurance. Abolition of sweatshops, prime object of the strike, seemed assured when wholesalers signed a three-months agreement to buy only from organized contractors and out-of-town union shops...