Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important points decided by the vote are first that negroes will not be excluded from the Freshman Halls by reason of their color and second that men of the white and colored races will not be compelled to live and eat in the same dormitory if they object to members of the other race...
...that service, and by limiting itself to those who can best profit thereby, it will avoid wastage through conflict with the institutions which prefer to remain open to all. A limitation of that sort is perhaps "aristocratic", but it is the sort of aristocracy to which no one can object. It will put a premium on good minds...
Mussolini ponders a plan to form a National Industrial Federation, which would be composed of seven large corporations. The object of the proposal is to give equal rights to employers and employed in the management of industry, and so mollify the Red Shirts (Labor) at present under the protective wing of Gabriele d'Annunzio. The plan will be worked out "to benefit not only capital and labor, but industry and the State...
Yale wants to know the same thing. Not about Dartmouth, but about Yale. And Professor C. W. Mendell, Professor of Latin and Chairman of the Athletic Board of Control, leads off in The Yale Daily News with a succinct and persuasive statement. The object of a college education is culture. "Culture is not the finished product, much less the meretricious trappings of an inferior article serving to deceive the observer. Culture is fertilization. . . . True education must make fertile the intellectual and moral ground so that it can bear fruit in the proper season. To be more concrete, the real education...
...believed that all matter is made up of "electrons," particles of negative electricity, and "protons," particles of positive electricity. The smallness of the electron is beyond human comprehension. Its diameter is about 30 trillionths of an inch. The most powerful microscope known would barely enable us to see an object 200 atoms wide, and if an atom were about the size of a large office building, an electron would be the size of a pinhead. Professor Thomson was Cavendish professor of experimental physics in Cambridge University from 1884 un- til 1918. During that time he developed a great research laboratory...