Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fogg Museum on Tuesday, January 24, at 4.30 o'clock. Madame Sikelianos, who has been living in Greece for about 20 years, is devoting herself to furthering Greek arts and crafts. She has recently lectured before the Archaeological Institute of America on "The Delphic Festival and its Object...
...term "objects of artistic merit" will be used as the basis for choice and in the broad sense in which it was used last year. It includes painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, textiles, pottery, glassware and bronzes. It is asked that no student hesitate to submit any object which he owns because of its low market value, since the exhibition will be composed of objects of intrinsic art worth, which term very often is in no direct relationship to monetary value...
...many of the leading cities in the West and Far West and also to the Hawaiian Islands. He will speak in the schools, confer with teachers and school superintendents, and incidentally talk to the Harvard Clubs in the communities which he will visit. Mr. Pennypacker's prime object is to make educators and pupils familiar with the entrance requirements of the Eastern colleges and with other subjects related to college entrance...
...sports. Baseball pitchers make a false motion to throw (called a balk); opponents are allowed to advance one base. Not so in billiards. In high class championship play, lines on the green cloth tablebed are drawn parallel to and 18 inches from the cushions. When two of the object balls are driven into any of the eight spaces bounded by these lines and the rectangles of their intersection such balls are "in balk...
Famed championships are played at 18.2 balkline. This means only one carom (popularly called billiard) can be scored until one of the object balls is driven out of balk; on the second carom one object ball must cross the line...