Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mail but on it. The bulk of the nation's correspondents will be greeted by the beaming face of George Washington, properly labeled; a smaller number for three cents receive knowledge of Abraham Lincoln; every citizen staying at home during the summer will get post cards bearing an object lesson in thrift, the picture of Benjamin Franklin. Because the ignorant foreigner must not be overlooked, he will receive on his letters a rotogravure in color of Theodore Roosevelt. Those who insist upon buying their clothes and house furnishings by mail will be edified by a print of the Yosemite Valley...
...fill in some bad holes in his knowledge, and another to get a "close-up" of a subject he has seen from afar in a general course, and above all, if it helps the average schedule-fettered undergraduate to prepare for his Divisionals, it will have accomplished its object...
...unsatisfactoriness of such a system has long been felt. In the first place, bequests left for some specific purpose often would be far more effective if applied in some other way. The object for which they were given disappears or is merged in something else, and unless some legal re-interpreting of the will can be done, the bequest unaltered proves to be a mill-stone around the university's neck. The object for which it was given must be revived or forcibly kept alive just to use the money of the gift. The McKay Fund left to Harvard, while...
...object of the Shelton Hale Scholarship, which is open only to first year students in the Harvard Law School, is to assist those who seek "a legal education under stress of financial difficulties". The award is made on the excellence of the candidate at the annual examination, which covers in detail the work of the first year to date; coupled with his general ability as shown by letters of recommendation and the like, and his record in college. The examination will last four hours...
...real object of pity, however, is the undergraduate who, after planning a splendid course for his last year as an undergraduate picks up the Announcement of Courses and finds that of his chosen four, three are to be omitted. Accordingly, despite a special interest in "Banking" or "Elizabethan Drama", in order to fill out his concentration, he is forced to take "Pope" or "Advanced Railroading...