Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really so much worse than our forefathers? Or was that philosopher wrong who said that every generation thinks its children lawless? Not that we object to all this talk, amusing as it is, but we should like to know whether the constant struggles to be horrible examples is unique with our age alone. If we have succeeded in stirring up the wrath of the just for the first time, we should at least get credit for that...
...Woodrow Wilson Foundation is asking the public to contribute to a fund which has two objects. One is to make possible an award, from time to time, in recognition of some meritorious service to humanity. The other object is to signalize, through associating his name with the award, the public service of a living American. Here enters inevitably, the element of personal and political feeling. Woodrow Wilson, like Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt, possessed the faculty of inspiring intense admiration and intense hatred. Many of his friends believe him to be the noblest figure in our political life since Lincoln...
...return if, he is a cheat and sometimes comes dangerously near to forgery. Now the number of men who are sneaks or cheats is not large, but it is large enough to make the administration of the Reading Room troublesome and discouraging, and enough partially to defeat the object for which the few simple rules of the room are framed--namely, to secure equal opportunity for all readers in the use of books...
...Library on the presumption that men are cheats and sneaks. There would be little pleasure in life left to any of us. We shall continue to act on the principle that we are dealing with honorable gentlemen, but we shall keep our eyes open with the object of excluding others...
...dwell at length on the few evidences of a dramatic revival in American hails of learning. Foremost among these latter is the 47 Workshop at the University, given under the direction of Professor G. P. Baker '87. This is the pioneer course in dramatics among American colleges. Its object it not to study the drama as literature so much as to take it up as a practical art, recognizing the claim of the creative artist, and giving him this vehicle of practice and self expression. There has long been a lack of understanding and appreciation of the fundamental value...