Word: object
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...object of the summer military camps for students which were begun by the Government last year is not unlike the plan for college undergraduates to take training-ship cruises that was suddenly abandoned when it had every prospect of success. But the military camps have passed through one successful season, and President Lowell is today in New York to discuss prospects for the coming summer. The active, healthful, outdoor life can not fail to be of benefit; but, further than this, there is the discipline of the military training, valuable in peace as well as in the event...
Mastery of detail in offensive and defensive tactics was the object of Coach Haughton's program of work for the University eleven on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The 20-minute practice consisted mainly of a thorough dummy scrimmage and though not a vigorous test of the team's fighting power, it seemed to be highly satisfactory as work in preparation for the game with Cornell tomorrow and that with Princeton a week later...
...meeting open to all interested, in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 7.15 o'clock. Professor A. B. Hart will speak on the growth of the party since the last presidential elections, and plans for a big torch light procession Saturday night will be discussed. The object of the meeting is to stir up some of the spirit which was shown last year...
...object which the coaches have in mind in the early season games with the smaller football teams is to discover the faults of the Varsity eleven and to prepare to eliminate them, and to fix on the merits of the team and develope them; to try out the resources and weld them into a compact whole which shall campaign with success against the real antagonists at the end of the schedule. Something very like this latter is the purpose of the coming mass meetings, aside from the more mechanical object of producing a good singing and cheering corps...
...those in charge of singing at the football games as indicated in the communication printed elsewhere in this issue seems singularly calculated to attain the end desired. Musical composition like all other forms of artistic endeavor does not flourish under competitive stimulus with a set occasion for its object. We may want new songs, but it is doubtful if they can best be obtained in the old way. On the other hand we realize that no amount of enthusiasm on the part of the students singing a song can contribute anywhere nearly as much toward the perfection of the performance...