Word: objecters
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...chief object of the first year is only the acclimation of the would-be student, and the instructor's duty is only to keep the mind from falling into its primitive weakness, a tutor's services are doubtless as efficient as any could be. But if rapid progress in clear and determinate knowledge is desired, if universal and indisputable truths are sought instead of partial and half-tested theories, an experience greater than a tutor's becomes necessary...
...Pierian Sodality and Glee Club have squabbled. This is not what one is apt to look for from two institutions whose sole object is harmony...
...printer that, when written, it shall be put into a readable and attractive form. The printer who does this the most successfully is the one who best answers the expectations of the public, and ought to be encouraged. As early as the fifteenth century typographical beauty was considered an object to be sought, and the family of Aldus has gained lasting renown by their success in this field. An Aldine copy of Lucius Fiorus (Venetiis, 1521) in my possession exhibits a distinctness of typography and general excellence of appearance that for those infant days of the art are quite commendable...
...object of the DOG-FANCIERS' UNION can be inferred easily enough from its title. Several undergraduates, owners of valuable dogs, formed the plan of meeting and consulting together in regard to the feeding and management of their canines. We suppose questions like the following will be discussed: "Does the practice of holding a dog's mouth so that he cannot howl while being castigated for misdemeanor further the best interests of the dog?" "Is there any limit to a dog's capacity for eating...
...College officer. The watchman is about to leave us. The Faculty feel that he has done well, that he has done more than well, but a watchman is no longer needed at their weekly meetings, and he must go. Not the man, but the office, is the object of their disapproval; the watchman goes forth, we assure our readers, with reputation as unspotted as when he came. We attempt no eulogy of his character; all who remember the active part - and the pail of chemicals - he bore in the conflagrations which have illumined our recent skies, will need no further...