Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said that if the music was of a higher and more serious nature there would be less objection to the trip. But this objection is founded upon misconception of the true object of a college Glee Club. If our graduates wish to listen to classical music they will seek professional musicians. Men engaged in the serious work of life go to a Glee Club concert to renew their relations with their Alma Mater and to live over, to some extent, their college days. If the concert does not satisfy this desire it is a failure. To demand, therefore, that...
...rule shall be suspended if twenty men object...
...eight-inch photographic telescope for the observatory is in process of construction. It is called a doublet, or rectilinear instrument, from the fact that it is to contain two object glasses, by which the linear distortions caused by ordinary lenses are nearly eradicated. The new telescope differs from the present Draper instrument in that it will take successive stellar photographs automatically, changing and exposing the plates according to the particular programme decided upon. The charts produced will be about eight inches square...
...meeting held in the university on Wednesday evening, a Biblical Club was organized, with the special object of discussing, at monthly meetings, the Apochryphal Literature of the Old Testament. The following officers were elected: President, W. H. Sallmon '94; secretary, J. S. Rogers '98; executive committee, H. F. Rall T. S., Rev. F. G. Marbles P. G., W. P. Keeler '97, and the president and secretary ex-offico. Sixty men joined the club at the first meeting...
...Sound Money Democratic Club held an enthusiastic mass meeting in Lower Mass. last evening, attended by about two hundred men. President Dobyns called the meeting to order and stated as the object of the meeting the indorsement of the platform and the candidates of the Indianapolis Convention. After the platform had been read by the secretary, F. A. Burlingame, resolutions strongly commending the Indianapolis platform and candidates were read by Wirt Howe, 1L. and were unanimously adopted. W. Denman, 3 L., on behalf of the committee appointed to draw up resolutions on the death of ex-Governor Russell, presented...