Word: objects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor J. L. Coolidge '95, professor and tutor in mathematics, leaves today on a trip which will take him as far west as St. Louis, according to an announcement made late yesterday afternoon. His chief object will be to give to Harvard graduates in the west a description uncolored by rumors, of the much discussed House Plan. For this purpose, he will address the Harvard Club of St. Louis on February 20, and on the following night he plans to speak before the Harvard Club of Chicago...
...When the 'ricks' find a 'sarker' or victim with money†, it 'becomes the object of the 'hammerer' to 'gazoomph' him; and this or any swindle is known as 'slinging...
...Fitzgerald discovered that an object changes its shape somewhat, according to its position or movement. Albert Einstein proved that objects change with time, that time itself is not a definite thing. It is different according to the viewpoint. Your hour is not my hour. . . . The scientists, in short, got a long way from the short man rapidly walking down a broad street. They had noted details. The short man was perhaps 5 ft. 4 in. tall; he weighed 145 Ibs.; wore unpolished black leather half-shoes, black lisle socks, a grey tweed suit, a taupe-colored felt hat pulled down...
...decapitate its thrower. If the Yale student returns unmarried, the chances are he will be so much in love that, unable to eat, sleep, or drink, he will be able to do nothing but wander aimlessly around the quadrangle gazing at the moon and composing sentimental poetry to the object of his love. After he has cut a certain number of classes and handed in a certain number of love poems for mathematics papers, his connection with the university will be severed. Thus for the missionaries from New Haven, missionary work on the Labrador is apt to prove alma matricide...
...appropriation of seven and a half million dollars for establishing an Institute of Human Relations at Yale, whose spirit will dominate that university in the future is an innovation, to say the least. The general object of the plan is to combine theoretical and practical sciences in analyzing and benefitting human life and relations. A comprehensive study of man in his relations to his fellow man is believed to be the key to understanding the individual. Knowledge of such theoretical sciences as biology, psychology, and sociology will be used in conjunction with what is known of such applied sciences...