Word: objects
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...overcrowded with refugees that it was almost impossible to secure quarters. Fuel is very expensive, and it was almost impossible to collect enough furniture and equipment in general to start with. Then, too, you have no idea how suspicious people are of any unselfish undertaking. The Turks especially object to every charitable project...
President Lowell, the concluding speaker, said: "Education has heretofore been concerned too much with the mechanics of education. The object of our new, school will be to study the ultimate effect of different phases of teaching on the human mind. Furthermore we must not look to teach the problems of the present, but the problems of the future...
...situation unique in the financial affairs of the University. Its income from endowments amounting in 1917-18 to $383,785, largely making up for the difference between the tuition fee and the actual cost of instruction, is pointed out by the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee as a significant object lesson to the 36,000 living graduates, undergraduates and former members of the University. It is evident, says the committee, that the University has to thank endowments for the fact that Harvard's Medical School holds such a leading place in the country's best schools of medicine and surgery...
Columbia University has established a compulsory Freshman course in contemporary civilization. According to President Butler, the object of instruction in this subject is to give first-year college students an outlook on the modern world as well as a point of view that will enable them better to understand and appreciate their subsequent studies...
...notable educational advances of the year," says Dr. Butler, "is the institution, under the faculty of Columbia University, of a course of instruction in contemporary civilization, prescribed for all Freshmen. The object of this course is to give the first-year college students an outlook on the modern world, as well as a point of view that will enable them better to understand and appreciate their subsequent studies...