Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of this organization, in which Mr. Clay has been most active, is: "To stimulate and satisfy the demands of working men and women for education, and generally to assist the development of a national system of education which shall insure to all children, adolescents, and audits such education as in essential for their complete development as individuals and citizens...
...from running the business end of an undergraduate institution such as the Crimson is of decided value beyond the possibility of having one's name on the letter-head for about half a year", according to Professor Robert Bowser '13, in connection with a former Crimson competition. "The essential object of going to college is and always will be an education. Yet training in undergraduate activities of this sort can well be a part of that mental discipline, which fits a man to be graduated...
Chesteton has a theory that no man of Jewish descent can ever become a true Englishman. For once he agrees with that object of his detestation, the dehumanized scientist, who believes in the inevitable, in determinism, and in the theory that blood is thicker than ideals. Mr. Chesterton does not altogether advocate that the Jews be treated as Isaac of York, but he does not like to see them rise as high as Disraeli and Lord Reading...
...great majority of the students appreciate the value of the general examination: they realize, too, that improvements in the plan are being made each year. But in a spirit of constructive criticism they object to a system which sets a premium upon the barest skeleton of correlated fact and gives no times for careful thought and planning. If the new examinations are to be a test of general knowledge,--they should eliminate chance by giving the student enough time to show how much he knows...
...belongs in this same category. Few persons who have not had personal experience in the oil business are aware of the pitfalls in the path of a would-be investor, or of the difficulties and dangers that must he surmounted before arriving at the goal of accrued dividends. The object of this brief paper is to advise any young man who has the oil fever to stop and calmly consider whether he will not be wiser in keeping his feet on the solid foundation of conservative business rather than to indulge in the present day fad of many college students...