Word: objected
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...founded a little more than two years ago. It is composed of officers and graduates of Harvard University, and of persons who have been students at the University either in term time or in the Summer Schools, and who are now teaching or intend to be teachers. Its object is to promote the development of the study of Education and Teaching at Harvard University, to promote the professional advancement of the members of the Association, and especially to promote the free interchange of thought upon educational questions among the teachers whom the University has sent forth...
...June, 1894, an International Congress of Amateurs will be held in Paris under the direction of the Union des societes francaises de sports athletiques. The object of the congress will be, "The consideration and extension of the principles which underlie the idea of amateur sports." The committee in charge of the arrangements consists of three members covering France and Continental Europe, England and the English Colonies, and America. The member of the committee in charge of the interests of the Congress in America is Professor William M. Sloane of Princeton...
Associations which participate in the congress do not thereby pledge themselves to observe the resolutions adopted. Its object is to express opinions on the different questions submitted to it, to consider measures for an international legislation, but not to inaugurate it. The order of sessions and the program of the festivities to accompany the occasion will be fixed at a later date...
...reason why we should desert the Renaissance style, for this we can adopt to our needs as other centuries have to theirs, but as soon as we endeavor to imitate former styles we fall out of touch with our own era, and therefore fail of accomplishing the main object of modern architecture, the union of art with architecture in representing the feelings of the times...
Seven years ago a student organization was formed with this object in view, and at the last meeting ninety-nine men signed as willing to go abroad. This foreign mission has claims upon us, only as we are in sympathy with the work which God left for his Disciples to accomplish. This work should have claims upon our sympathy for we can not imagine that the twelve Disciples converted all the world, and so long as we have hopes of the eventual accomplishment of this conversion, we must be willing of lend a hand in spreading the knowledge...