Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Certainly there will be many who will object to Mr. Lamont's apparent contempt for the value of extra-curriculum work. There are those, who stirred to exaggeration, will repeat the old saying that a man who fails to study in professional school is as much of a fool as the man who really studies in college. Others will claim with greater seriousness that the real value to be gained from college is the ability to meet and handle other men and that this is best acquired outside the classroom. Still others will trace the emphasis on practical achievement...
...College Spirit. "The day a young man arrives he's told he must love his college. God knows why. If he'd gone anywhere else, he'd be supposed to settle his affections there. . . . That's silly, sentimental stuff. I don't object to a youth loving his college. But I do object if there's a reason for it. College is too good to be cared for in that fashion...
...last three half-hours, nor was a goal gained by either side. Again this fall, with very few of last year's players and with very little practice in the McGill game, owing to the preparation for the Graduate match, we won a victory over the Canadians. Yale may object on the score that Harvard has already become well acquainted with the game. Very true, but Yale can practice and learn it during the fall. It is a game very easy and simple to learn, requiring, at the utmost, two weeks' practice for a club to be able to play...
...that the best the French can do is to leave the Germans to stew in their own juice and organize the Rhineland and Ruhr (for the collection of reparations) into a separate barrier state between Germany and France. This policy the French have all along denied as being their object in seizing the Ruhr. It would, however, be convenient if the events in Germany caused by the Ruhr seizure were to compel Premier Poincaré to adopt Pertinax's policy against his will...
...Situation Wanted-Middle-aged male, easily exploitable, stylishly stout, desires position requiring minimum of effort and maximum leisure. Salary entire object...