Word: objects
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...danger of uncovering a trail of dishonesty like that in the building operations in New York is that the public rushes along blinded to the ultimate purpose of the whole affair. Conviction of gratters is not the only end to be sought; the real object of all the turmoil is to make possible a solution of the housing problem by building more houses. Everyone realizes that the rent relief laws were only temporary; indeed their constitutionality depended on the fact that an emergency existed which allowed for an extraordinary use of the State's police powers...
...Blake will speak on the "Caucasus" at the meeting of the Harvard Travellers' Club, which will be held in the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. All members of the University are invited to attend this meeting as it was arranged with the object of stimulating interest in the organization among undergraduates and graduate students...
...Harvard Travellers' Club was founded some eighteen years ago with the object of promoting intelligent travel and exploration. The activities of the Club have consisted chiefly of meetings during the winter months for the presentation of papers; exhibits of the products of sport and travel have also been given occasionally, and a gold medal has been awarded from time to time to members of the Community who have distinguished themselves in exploration...
...case here. . . . These college have grown up in England as the result of a divine accident and cannot very well be foisted ready-made upon an American university. Oxford and Cambridge, moreover, have not the complicated problems arising here out of the fact that graduate students--whose object should be the attainment of specialized knowledge--are taught in the same classes with undergraduates--whose aim should be the acquisition of intellectual power. The work of a tutor is infinitely more strenuous and exhausting than that of a lecturer; the fact that the academic year in Oxford and in Cambridge...
...long time followers of football have keenly felt this desire. Especially is this the case with fans in the west who object rather strenuously to their fellow fans of the east resting all too complacently on the fallacious assumption that because their teams do represent the staid old east they play the superior brand of football. Fans in the west have for some time now quite strenuously objected to this unwarranted supposition, and deny that there is any sound basis for it until it is proven in actual play on the gridiron...