Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dispite Kipling's famous ballad, Easterners and Westerners have many likes and dislikes in common, but the object of their most violent hatred is the man who tells them the unsavory truth about themselves. In a play now appearing in Boston, the hero, a New York minister who says what he thinks; is ejected from office for his attitude towards his rich parishioners. Needless to say the latters' guilty consciences are responsible for the deed, but the chances are, even if his enemies were as innocent as they pretend to be, that he would have been expelled in any case...
...Senators display more originality. Heflin, always genial and diverting, has chosen to lecture on "Egyptology". This subject, while peculiarly apropos in the Senate, is perhaps not quite as entertaining as some other things he might have chosen, such as the "Parody Outline of History", or as appropriate to the object of the filibuster as "Liverpool Jarge" would...
...daily program will consist, as in former years, of discussion groups and platform meetings, and among the lecturers are Dean W. L. Sperry of the Theological School, and the Reverend H. E. Fosdick, D.D., professor of Practical. Theology at Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. The object of the conference is to discuss social, religious, and economic problems of the day, a series of lectures being given by men who are leaders in these fields...
...still object to the suggestion, on no other grounds, it seems, than that it is not absolutely necessary; or that it might add to governmental red tape. It is barely possible that their reticence may be laid to another cause. A recent article proposed the identification of cattle not by branding but by this same print-method: only in their case the impression was to be made with the snout. Man can hardly be blamed for fearing to fall in the same category...
...United States Navy retired, and Chancellor C. S. McGown, director of the American international College of Springfield, at 8 o'clock this evening in Symphony Hall, Boston. These will be the main speakers at the patriotic meeting which is being held under the auspices of the Loyal Coalition, the object being to set forth the broad issues confronting the country today...