Word: objecting
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...print elsewhere a challenge received this week from the Harvard Boat-Club. Comment upon this document seems almost to be uncalled for. The object of a challenge sent at such a time in the year, and couched in such terms, must be obvious to all, and can, without further explanation from the Harvard Boat-Club, be considered as merely a 'sporting dodge' probably sent with an underlying purpose...
PROFESSOR NORTON, on Tuesday last, gave the first of a series of twelve readings, in English, from the Divine Comedy, which are to be given in the Hawthorne rooms, Park Street, Boston, at 12 M., on successive Tuesdays and Saturdays. The object of these readings is to give a connected view of the Divine Comedy. Books for subscribers' names may be found at A. Williams & Co., Little, Brown, & Co., and Doll and Richards'. The course of readings from the Odyssey, to be given by Professor Palmer, is postponed, owing to his absence...
...MEETING of the Freshman class took place on Thursday, the 28th of February. Mr. Whiting, the president of the class, after calling the meeting to order, explained in a short address that its object was to ascertain the general opinion in regard to rowing a race with the Freshman crew of Cornell. Some doubts having been expressed as to the captain's right to send or accept challenges, he stated that, as no executive committee had been appointed to decide such matters, Captain North had acted rightly, and in accordance with the custom of his predecessors, in accepting the challenge...
...course it is only the less important features of the book that we have criticised. We doubt whether it will accomplish its apparent object of convincing unbelievers in co-education, who, by the by, must not be undeservedly confounded with unbelievers in equal education; but it will certainly furnish pleasant and light reading to anybody who takes it up; and we are happy to state that the author's English is far better than her French...
...ROWING-CLUB has been organized by the members of the Young Men's Christian Association Gymnasium. A boat-house will be built on Charles River this spring; but healthy exercise rather than amateur honors will be the object of the club...