Word: object
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Leighton Parks preached in Appleton Chapel last night on ideas suggested by the parable in Jeremiah of the potter's house. In the parable there is an obvious object lesson. There are three things necessary for the formation of a bit of pottery, the clay, the wheel and the potter's hand. So it is in the formation of a human being; there is the body and the mind corresponding to the clay, experience, environment, corresponding to the wheel, God, back of all the work, corresponding to the potter...
...rule shall be suspended if twenty men object...
...professorship of Pacific Coast History has been established at Leland Stanford Jr. University. A great deal of matter is said to be scattered throughout California, written and printed in several languages, bearing upon the early settlement of the country and its traditions. The object of the professorship is to collect and preserve these, and, presumably, to present a continuous picture of such history to future classes...
...Street. As the house now stands it will hardly suit the needs of the club, so plans have been drawn to make the house into a good club-house. The alterations will not have to be very extensive and the expense will be but slight; in fact the main object of the alterations will be to provide cooking and dining arrangements such as the club will need. If everything goes as is expected, the club will be settled in its new Beacon Street quarters some time during the coming September...
...flagrant examples of this fault as of the other have come to our notice. But certainly if there are men who are tempted to make the struggle about the Tree an occasion for settling old scores, they should learn to choose some other place to do their fighting. The object of the tree exercises is to get the flowers, not to mutilate the next man, and the exercises ought always to be kept within gentemanly bounds. A certain amount of "scrapping" is, as the writer says, irreparable from such a struggle, but the affair must not degenerate into a free...