Word: object
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yesterday Mr.Isadore Lazarus 1L rises to the Wilsonian cause with much enthusiasm, if perhaps with less judgment. Gaily starting with three premises that perhaps even the most sanguine practical Democrat would admit of doubtful possibility, he arrives at a conclusion which condescendingly damns the whole University as an object of national ridicule. That Harvard has been damned before by more powerful and more virulent critics than Mr. Lazarus, and still exists in what we who are fond of her are pleased to believe it a most flourishing state, is perhaps some consolation...
There were many Southerners in Harvard at the time of the Civil War. How many objected to the building of Memorial Hall? Few are the men in any civilized land who object to honors paid the dead, whatever cause they die for. The British gave a military funeral to the crews of fallen Zeppelins. There is true tolerance...
...chief object this first year, however, is to get together as a class. Class spirit is the foundation of College spirit. If you get class spirit now, you will keep it always, and when you graduate there will always be that class to which you will belong, which will last until the last members have gone...
...organization known as the Harvard Musical Clubs is composed of three clubs: the Glee Club, the Banjo Club and the Mandolin Club. After existing separately for some time, they were united in 1913 under the name of the Harvard Musical Clubs. The object of the clubs is primarily social, a number of concerts being given each year in and around Boston. The instrumental clubs are composed of men who play a number of instruments,--mandolin, banjo, banjeaurine, guitar, violin, 'cello, mandola, piccolo, traps, etc. Members are required, except in cases of men of marked ability and skill, to perform upon...
...battle was formerly a thing of hours and a few square miles; it took its name from a town, and sometimes, when no town was near, from some handy object, Chrysler's Farm, Gaines' Mill, Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh Church. Now a battle is what a campaign used to be, a thing of months, stretching over an expanse of territory, the course of a river, perhaps a province. The battle of Champagne, the battle of Bukowina, the battle of the Dobrudja, are already historic names. In one such battle, as that of the Somme, there may be many small campaigns...