Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith A.M. '24, assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, will study for the coming year in Dublin with the object of investigating the historical and legal literature of ancient Ireland...
...With the object of making archaeological investigations in northern Mesopofamia, Dr. R. H. Pfeiffer '21, instructor in Semitic Languages, has been made a fellow...
...year is that of Dr. W. G. Luyten G. '24, assistant professor of Astronomy in the University. Dr. Luyten will go to Mazelspoort, South Africa, with the aim of taking a large number of photographs of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope in the Harvard Observatory there. His object will be to compare these plates with similar plates taken between 1896 and 1906, to obtain information concerning the numbers, velocities and intrinsic brightnesses of the stars in the neighborhood...
...mechanics of digestion he started speculating on psychic stimulation, the power of suggestion on the lower organs. He conditioned various animals to a bell, to a light, to a color, to the beats of a metronome, and in each case, after appearing with the food a few times, the object itself when presented without food caused the salivary gland to secrete steadily...
...shows are noted also for their originality and the excitement they cause among untutored art patrons. The exhibition is often referred to as a "circus" or a "rodeo" by such stubbornly facetious reporters as are sent, instead of art critics, to report the affair for newspapers. To exhibit an object of art under the auspices of this nonjury, non-prize-awarding organization, it is only necessary that the manufacturer of the object pay $8 to cover, presumably, the rent of wall-space. Hence many absurd trophies of the endless hunt for ideas are hung along the Waldorf wainscots and many...