Word: object
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regret. Year after year students have wished for an adequate course on United States History since the Formation of the Union, and this year the Scholarship Committee of the Student Council has embodied a request for such a course in its recommendations. History 13 does not fulfill the object because it deals too minutely with constitutional and party development: History 17 covers only the History of the West. Thus there is no course which gives a general survey of our national development in such a way as to make it attractive for a student who is not specializing in History...
...object of establishing the summer camps is to increase the personnel of the United States trained military reserve and to give college men the advantages of military discipline and outdoor life. The expenses will be light, including the cost of clothes and $1.75 a week for Board. The length of encampment has been shortened...
...object of the clubhouse as recently outlined by Odin Roberts '86, is not to furnish a loafing place but a "large animated workshop." The club will perform a very valuable service, being a common centre for Harvard men,--a service which it has until now largely failed to fulfill because of lack of a permanent home. The ambition of the present management is to characterize the appointments and service of the club by academic simplicity. This, it is believed, will stamp the club with a democratic and all-embracing atmosphere which will assure all Harvard men an open door...
Secondly and equally important is the custom of the financially decrepit Seniors begging a few humble pennies from the generous Freshmen. The object of this Freshman philanthropy is one of the worthiest met with in a college career--it is the Senior Picnic. Let every member of 1916 come to the steps behind Memorial Hall with his pockets well filled with small change to help give the Seniors a last grand party...
...decided not to carry out the plan of embarking students on battleships this summer, two military camps will be established, one at Gettysburg National Park, from July 7 to August 29, inclusive, and the other at the Presidio of Monterey, California, from July 1 to August 29 inclusive. Their object is to increase the present inadequate personnel of the trained military reserve of the United States by a class of men from whom, in time of a national emergency, a large proportion of the commissioned officers may be drawn. Aside from this, the camps will give a healthy...