Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of the Putnam Arctic Expedition was twofold; to investigate life among the Esquimos, now fast disappearing of North Greenland, and to secure specimens of all the sea mammals and fish of the region, these to be placed in the American Museum of Natural History...
...exhibition of photographs taken by Professor Clarence Kennedy of Smith College, now being shown in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum. For obvious reasons satisfactory photographs of sculpture are far more difficult to obtain than those of paintings. They demand a sympathetic study of the object from innumerable points of view, and in varying lights and shadows in order to bring out the essential and finest qualities. Appreciating this to the full, and realizing the importance of good reproductions for the use of students, Professor Kennedy has for several years made a special study of photographing sculpture both...
...which he had heard: how it had sailed from Manhattan, via Panama, to Los Angeles, Yokohama, Shanghai, Siam, Egypt, Constantinople, Venice; how its members had studied manfully between excursions and receptions on shore; how its full-size college faculty had imparted learning, not only by lectures but by object and project lessons in the countries visited; how a daily newspaper was published aboard ship, edited by a onetime Governor of Kansas, Henry J. Allen, (TIME, Sept. 27). There was something pedagogically idyllic about the scene of 500 world-circling U. S. scholars kneeling and being blessed in the Vatican; bowing...
Last week a despatch from Madrid announced new hope for a successful compromise between thrills and humanity. Utilizing discarded automobile tires a rubber coat has been devised for the bull ring horse, thick straw pads hung along the sides. It is hoped that bulls will not object to the innovation; will be satisfied with burying their horns in straw; will not insist upon horseflesh or nothing...
Conjecture, query and surprise greeted the substantiation last night of the rumor that the dignified and conservative Advocate is purchasing a talking parrot. Not a mere talking parrot is the object of the quest, it must be more-over a highly educated talking parrot; one that not only talks, but knows where of he speaks...