Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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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...
...meeting having for its object the formation of a federation of the graduate clubs of the various universities and colleges in the United States was held in Philadelphia on January 3. The delegates were most hospitably received and kindly treated by the Pennsylvania Graduate Club. The meeting was held in Houston Hall, the handsome new clubhouse of the Houston Club...
Whether this league be formed or not, it would seem a most advantageous thing for ice polo, a sport which is becoming very popular, especially with college students, if a college organization were formed with the object of furthering this sport. A team formed on a competitive basis would then be in a position to truly represent the University. Furthermore, such an organization would be a nucleus for such efforts as the attempt to flood Holmes Field or to secure an indoor skating rink...
Nothing will tend more to preserve peace on this continent than the resolute assertion of the Monroe Doctrine; let us make this present case serve as an object lesson, once for all. Nothing will more certainly in the end produce war than to invite European aggressions on American states by abject surrender of our principles. By a combination of indifference on the part of most of our people, a spirit of eager servility toward England in another smaller portion, and a base desire to avoid the slightest financial loss even at the cost of the loss of national honor...
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...