Word: objects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ripon the chief object of political veneration was the one-room schoolhouse in which Bovay held his meeting. The building was later occupied by George W. Peck, author of Peck's Bad Boy and one-time Governor of Wisconsin...
Getting to the moon was the object of Herr Oberth's researches. The Society considered that he had actually made progress toward ''practical interstellar navigation." The problem begins, and so far has ended, with the forces by which Earth clutches that which is its own. To escape the pull of gravity, an earthborn body would have to take off at terrific speed. Outside the earthly atmosphere, interstellar gases are so rare that they would afford no traction for an airplane's propellor, no buoyance for wings. Most scientists with lunar leanings have therefore pondered shooting themselves...
...teaching device available at that particular time. Its function should be to point out when teaching has not taken effect, in order that remedial exercises may be applied. It should not be used as a device for finding out what a student knows, or does not know, with the object of inflicting a penalty to the deficient. Were the examination used in the light of showing the students his weaknesses, that he might correct them, cramming would cease. Since in our own college some instructors hold this very view and have seen it worked out successfully, it cannot be tagged...
Some such plan for the limitation of oil production in western States was expected to be worked out at the meeting of Governors, U. S. officials and leaders of the oil industry called for June 10 at Colorado Springs by President Hoover. The object is to contrive an agreement which will be in restraint of overproduction but not in restraint of trade...
...this, "Tap Day" should certainly go into the discard of outworn Yale traditions. This intrinsically barbarous practice belonged to the older and more primitive Yale College. Now that the modern Senior Societies have frankly become social clubs, with their members chosen on that basis (and no one can object if that is their openly avowed policy), some better system of giving out elections should be found. Yale Alumni Weekly...