Word: object
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Literature. (2) a general acquaintance with English Literature. (3) Proficiency in English Composition. Although no hard and fast rules have been made as to these requirements, it is pretty well understood that a candidate, in selecting the six full courses required for honors, must bear in mind the object of the department...
...propose it. This is all the more necessary when the step involves the reversal of the long established policy of a great institution, so that an error, if made, cannot easily be corrected. No one who has followed the history of the present movement can doubt that the object of those most interested in its success is to secure a three years course. No one seriously doubts that the actual proposal, which relates to the work of half a year, is only an entering wedge, and that more will be demanded for consistency's sake if this fails on trial...
Professor Shaler's paper is virtually an expostion of the plan of education which Harvard is gradually imposing on the country-one that has for its object the needs of each individual student instead of the rigid imposing of an iron clad system...
...work was begun and is carried on under Professor Goodale's own immediate direction, a fact which ensures its value in very respect. Its use in botanical instruction has been made the first object; its aesthetic value to botanical students and all lovers of flowers the second. Happily this is a case in which it is possible to combine both interests without detriment to either. The value of the collection as supplementing the living material of the Botanic Garden is very great, and it will in addition place before students immense numbers of very important plants which cannot be grown...
...likely that more than five men will object to the giving of the senior eleven's surplus to the class committee in order that a meeting of the senior class may be called. The seniors will remember that at the last meeting of the class the motion to provide that the Ninety-one class day garment be the cap and gown instead of the dress suit was laid on the table until the next meeting; those men who favor the new method of dress will find this an excellent opportunity to bring the subject up for a final vote...