Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establishing the Union Major Higginson had the two-fold object of providing a club to which all Harvard men should belong and of providing a centre for the intellectual and extra-curriculum life of the University. Unfortunately neither object has been attained in full; the second has hardly been attained...
...what of the other object? Here again existing conditions balk any complete attainment of Major Higginson's ideal; while the publications have their own buildings and the musical clubs their rooms, the Union can not hope to be the kind of centre that its founder conceived. But again there has been partial success: lectures, dinners, and committee meetings testify to that. There remains only the problem of the political and "activity" clubs which are anxious to find some centre. But in such cases, with their eyes always on the problem of increasing the club membership, those in charge have generally...
Such an attitude has been defended on the assumption that membership can be increased or at least prevented from decreasing by drastic methods, denying any privileges to those who are not members. But to the outsider it appears that the Union has deliberately sacrificed one of its objects in order to give the other object some very doubtful bolstering...
...begins to be evident that President Coolidge will shortly be harried forth from his sequestered silence by nagging Fords and Pinchots. Even if Henry Ford's outburst over Muscle Shoals defeats its own object, Governor Pinchot's demand for more rigid Prohibition enforcement on the part of the President requires official reply. Although enforcement in Pennsylvania is as much a state as a federal duty,--and presumably the governor knows this as well as anybody--President Coolidge must state his position clearly or lose caste with the large voting population of Prohibitionists...
...object of this regatta is largely to help Coach Newell choose three of the seven 150-pound eights to continue rowing until the week of the Princeton football game...