Word: objecting
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...groups called "camps," each with a captain. A record of debates will be kept and at the end of the year the losing camp will give a dinner to the winners. The society is to sit at tables where light refreshments are served and smoking will be allowed. The object of the organization is to popularize debating and make it more informal...
...been much aided by the pleasant social features of their meetings. Little effort has been made to strengthen debating in this way, and we think that an innovation in the line of the experiment which Yale is reported to have begun, might be of practical value in Cambridge. The object should be, not so much to arrange dinners or other entertainments on special occasions, as to brighten up the regular meetings...
This morning Professor Royce gives the third lecture in his course on "The Social Factors in the Development of the Individual Mind." under the auspices of the Twentieth Century Club. The object of the club is to give courses of lectures on subjects that are comparatively new, and yet useful, and to have them at such times and rates as shall place them within the reach of all. If the course now being given should prove successful, lectures will be given in the departments of History, Literature, Economics, Science and Art, the scheme of lectures to cover not less than...
...undergraduate committee on the University Club requests most earnestly that all men who wish to signify their interest in the proposed club sign one of the blue books today. The object of collecting the signatures is to show the degree to which such a club would be used at the present time. It is of the utmost importance that all names be in before the beginning of the mid-years...
...prevalent impression that there is no enthusiasm at Harvard; but said that it was undeniably true that there was not a sufficiently united spirit, one in which all men felt they had a part. This he attributed to the disintegration which was inevitable with so many smaller clubs. The object of the proposed club is to remedy this, to weld all interests into one, and to create a Harvard spirit. He referred to Pennsylvania, where the athletic spirit had been brought out and intensified by the University Club...