Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last editorial is the most surprising of all. The managers of the Advocate, having discovered that fault-finding is usually a paying article, have done their best to produce a composition that would attract the attention and the money of the College. They know that the more prominent the object of an attack is, the more attention the attack - whatever its merits may be - attracts; and, considering the Faculty of the College to be on the whole the most prominent body in Cambridge, they have attacked the Faculty in a column of what I suppose to have been intended...
...door-mat, with the intention, probably, of representing his firm in the old clo' department at the Centennial. But, as a general thing, if one wishes to avoid trying on the new varieties of "Patent Braces," and other articles of wearing apparel, he will best secure his object by studying the peculiarities of gait among pedlers. It is an easy matter to discover a new hand at the business. He walks along rather undecidedly, stops to scan the name on the door, and then knocks, with something of deference in the sound. Far different is the hardened book-agent...
...this last change we cannot too strongly object; but as the importance of a required course in Political Economy was discussed at some length in these columns last year, we will not revive the subject, but we feel sure that all will regret the giving up of a study at once so useful and necessary...
...never was known to object...
...criticised and judged like other things; yet, although the semi-familiar manner in which religious matters are referred to in the Yale and Princeton papers would not be surprising in ignorant revivalists, it seems a little extraordinary in people who proclaim themselves to be "cultivated Christians." And the object of the revival appears to be simply belief. The revivalists of to-day, like those of the camp-meetings of twenty years ago, cry out, in substance, "Believe right, - i. e. as we do, - no matter what you do!" The true cultivated Christian tells us to do right, and leaves...