Word: object
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...object of this library is to provide books for students who are unable to purchase them and any such are requested to apply as soon as possible as the supply this year is limited...
...another to the detriment of the cause in which they profess to be engaged, until the army of the Lord sometimes reminds one of that of Midian which was destroyed before Gideon because every man's sword was against his fellow. If this be true of institutions whose professed object is unselfish, how much more of those whose primary object is gain. In such a case the manager has a sense of two distinct obligations, one to his stockholders and one to the public, and these are not infrequently more or less in conflict. For the one he will...
...similar scheme night be applied to interscholastic rowing. The advantages of having a single race, the winning of which would be the main object of the scholastic crews, are obvious. Not only would schoolboy rowing in this neighborhood receive a great impetus, but the relations between Harvard and the schools would be sure to become closer and more cordial...
...fundamental object of the fellowship is to provide genuine laboratory experience and training to men interested in the human sciences,--particularly economics, sociology, social ethics,--on their human side. The holder is in residence continuously at the South End House and is in close touch with all its active affairs...
...impressed with the fact that the function of the Jew is primarily religions, that he became famous as a fervent interpreter of the prophets. He was an intense Zionist and was killed by an Arab in 1140 while trying to reach Jerusalem, the city which served as the object of his devotional poetry...