Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wingshooting, Cont." (Letters, Dec. 30, p. 4). "The gun is aimed directly at the object in flight, firing as the barrel is moving with the bird." Wrong and right. It is necessary to both lead and follow through, or the duck supper will be a pork roast...
Said the erudite Times: "The object of the writer has been to make the Latin easily intelligible, and therefore he has avoided elaborate punning, which, though it pleases the groundlings, tends to obscure the meaning. Still there are a few-'Gas main' (Rogas manat), 'Stick-a-lips' (Aste Calypso) are good examples; the rest are puns of a single word like felix and omnibus. In this connection it is interesting to note that the centenary of this mode of public conveyance is marked by the recurrence of the same pun as was employed...
Making a classic analogy of the Harvard student's attitude with that of the ancient Greek. Dr. Lowell stated that his university's object was "the cultivation of physical excellence in young men." This policy supersedes the interest in their collegiate teams, he feels. Such a principle is in direct contrast to the Romans' ideas, for their main interest was in seeing the chosen few display their prowess, and not in athletics of any sort for the multitude. With these Romans Dr. Lowell compares the huge crowds which throng stadiums in the fall, and who give to athletic contests...
...object of sports in college life," he said, "should be the development of the physique of each and every student." He favored the system in operation at Oxford, where he had spent a year, in that there was a position on a team of some description or rank for every man. He said that, in England, the number of spectators who attended university contests was relatively small. In contrast to this he placed the American tradition of comparatively recent growth in which thousands of undergraduates "get their exercise by watching 22 gladiators fight...
...have happened to see no more searching analysis of the evil of present-day intercollegiate athletics than is contained in the report of the President to the Overseers of Harvard. Mr. Lowell points out that in intercollegiate athletics the primary object has become the entertainment of the spectators whereas in any sound system of education the primary object of athletics must be the health, the pleasure and the discipline of the athlete himself. In that distinction lies the clue to the whole problem which now perplexes all those who discuss the manifest evils of commercialism, overemphasis, professionalism, ballyhoo and vulgarity...