Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Coming now to the method of taking photographs, the lecturer showed the difference in the process. In taking a photograph with cathode rays a plain dry plate is used. There are the customary slides in the holder but there is no central opaque partition. The hand or object to be photographed is put on the slide and you get a photograph of the shade. As glass absorbs the rays a lens would be of no use and would prevent the taking of a photograph. Thus the common process of photographing is exactly reversed with the cathode rays. This was illustrated...
There are occasionally discreditable occurrences in the University world,- childish, unworthy acts committed by students, which are best passed unnoticed. If made the object of public comment and censure they achieve the notoriety which is the chief delight of the offenders and unnecessarily injure the good name of the University. But there is a limit in this as in all things. There are some acts of such a nature that the college community suffers, on on the other hand, if it does not openly condemn and disavow them. Such an act was that to which Dean Briggs's letter refers...
Latin: A new course is to be given in this language. The course is intended for teachers, and will be conducted by Mr. C. P. Parker. The use of Beginners' Latin Book (Coller and Daniell). The object is to instruct in the best methods of teaching elementary Latin...
...From the beginning it has been the object of the Faculty and of the Athletic Committee, not to cripple or abolish the competitive sports, but to have them conducted with moderation and honesty, and in a generous temper...
Lectures on Literature.During the year 1895-96, Mr. Copeland will give a number of lectures on English literature, of which the subjects and the dates will be announced in the University Calendar. The chief object of these lectures is to stimulate interest in literature, and particularly to encourage critical discussion of such matters of literary consequence as may from time to time arise. A secondary object is to suggest lines of reading to such members of the University as desire some knowledge of English Literature without the minute study demanded by the regular courses of instruction...