Word: object
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...even though our track and gymnasium athletics seem to be in no danger, it is a matter of great regret that the winter meetings are falling away; and every means should be taken to revive them. It was with this object of centering the interest that the H. A. A. cut down the number of meetings to two. Some, however, say that this was merely a step towards the final abolishment of the meetings; and that it is only a question of time before the end comes. We are loath to believe this. Though our meetings cannot...
...meeting of the Free Wool Club on Friday an amendment to the constitution will be considered with a view to changing the name and object of the club...
...object of President Eliot's recent trip to the West was to investigate the universities and the secondary schools. The trip had been very instructive, as it revealed points which could not be learned by reading...
...hold its first Winter Meeting of the year. There is a standing rule of the Association that no student of the University, unless a member of the H. A. A., shall be allowed at its meetings. When the H. A. A. first made this rule, it was the immediate object of increasing the membership of the H. A. A. and ultimately of advancing the whole system of athletics at Harvard. That the Association has succeeded in its object to a high degree is shown by Harvard's signal success in track and field athletics...
...force members to join the Association. Whether or not this is the only way to get sufficient funds remains to be seen; but the one principle at stake-which, in this instance, the H. A. A. has seemed to abandon-is the ultimate broadening of our college athletics. This object the rule in question seems, to us, closely to restrict. The college may possibly think otherwise. If they deem it emphatically good, then let the H. A. A. strictly enforce it; if they think it bad and unworthy of the H. A. A., as we are forced to believe...