Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another reason why I object to the proposed scheme is that the St. Lawrence route, even when improved, would not be feasible for ocean-going ships. The channels proposed by the Joint Commission are not of a depth to accommodate vessels of a draft which can be navigated economically. Specially strengthened ships must be constructed to navigate the St. Lawrence in safety. The damages from Icebergs, tides, and fogs are so great and losses so frequent that the Maritime Insurance rate is heavy enough to be a serious handicap. Moreover the delays in the restricted channels of the river would...
...large extent base their selection of graded crews tomorrow. However, it has been intimated very strongly that the members of the losing boats will be placed under no handicap, and that each oarsman will receive equal consideration for a berth among the first Freshman eights. The principal object of the race this afternoon is to give the coaches a definite idea of the relative merits of the crews as units, as well as allowing the men a last opportunity of proving their individual capacities under race pressure...
...obvious result is that the value of all degrees is cheapened and that all personal spontaneity will tend to be knocked out of university intellectual life, as long as degrees are the paramount object in view...
...conference will have as its main object the election of officers of the I. I. H. A. for next year, and the consideration of proposed changes in the rules of the game and in the constitution of the association. The officers for this year are H. Emanuelson of Yale, president, and W. J. Mac Intosh of the University of Pennsylvania, vice-president. New officers will be elected tomorrow...
...that heaven interposed in the affairs of humanity to produce that ridiculous mouse, the modern curate. No teacher in the history of the world ever occupied a lower place in the respect of men. . . . He figures with the starving children of Russia in appeals to the charitable as a object of pity. The hungry sheep look up and are not fed but the shepherd also looks up from his pit of poverty and neglect, as hungry as the sheep, hungry for the bare necessities of animal life...