Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevents me right away from giving any of my really personal views on the subject of 'prohibition'. I don't feel a bit inclined to criticise your country anyhow. It isn't done, you know. I am a visitor, a guest. But I certainly can say that I would object to my own state dictating my diet. I really think it is rather a bad thing for a policeman to tell anyone what dinner he should have. Then, for the same reason, I do not want to talk about the 'Irish Question', because I would be criticising my own country...
...Peartree's object in creating this fund is to draw attention to this subject, which he believes is one of the fundamental elements of human happiness and progress. He also hopes that this contest will result in the offering of other similar prizes so that persons may be stimulated from time to time to use this means of expressing thoughts explanatory of what "Toleration" really means in economic, political and religious relations...
...provide the necessary food, Mr. Hoover estimates that thirty million dollars will be required, and already in every city and town of the United States, a committee is working to collect the funds. This is an object which Harvard men cannot pass by. One dollar given will keep a child alive for a month; ten dollars will keep a child until the next harvest. Even ten cents will be gratefully received and will help nourish one of the starving. No matter, therefore, how restricted a student may be himself, he can contribute his mite to those who need it most...
...managerial positions open to Sophomores, I was able to get much more out of my entire college career and I know that the experience gained in various business positions as an undergraduate has proved to be of great value to me since leaving the University. Though the essential object of going to college is still, and always will be, to obtain 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...
When this campaign among the alumni according to classes finished, the Executice Committees of a number of classes asked to be allowed to continue the canvass with the object both of bettering the class average and of adding a few more thousand dollars in the belief that it may encourage others to join in raising the remaining $1,800,000 needed...