Word: objection
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...penetrates our walls as well as our doors and windows, and even our grates, which are acknowledged to be of a peculiar make, are not proof against this combined attack of the wintry blast. To leave open our outer doors is an utter impossibility, that is, if we object at all to having our feet frozen; and as we are forced to keep our portals closed in self-defence, we are fast gaining the unenviable reputation of "sporting" constantly. To make us comfortable would involve but little trouble and no great expense, so, at least, I am assured on good...
...ways and means of life, and a horizon that did not reach beyond Class Day." The biography of a student can usually be summed up about as follows: In early life he decided to go to college; goes to the academy or high school to prepare; his one object in life is to get into college; he passes the entrance examinations, and judges that he is in the seventh heaven; four years seem such a long time that he never thinks of looking beyond; he gives himself up wholly to college life; he becomes careless and unmethodical...
...know that some believe that the object of these examinations is to obtain from the students thorough daily work, and that they ought not to study up for them. Against the end proposed I have nothing to say, - it is what is needed here above all things, - but that it will ever be attained by such examinations as these I most decidedly do not believe. As long as examinations are announced beforehand, just so long will men, if for no other reason, because they know that other men will read up for them, and fear to be ranked lower than...
...some cases the convenience of students has been consulted when the time was fixed for these simple recreations; in other cases the question has been settled without regard to their convenience. Cases have been known, accordingly, of men having four of these preliminary trials in one week. The object of each of the four examinations has tests of knowledge, and their object in pointing out the proper way of getting up the subjects, are then both alike unattained. It is a simple matter for an instructor to ask whether his division as any good reason for preferring to have their...
...another column explains in detail the changes made in the plan of the club. It has always been our opinion that this club might become an instrument of good if it could find a definite method of advancing the interests of art. It labored under many disadvantages. Its object was to increase the knowledge of undergraduates in matters of art, but there was no one competent and willing to undertake the instruction of the members of the club themselves. By the efforts of Professor Norton, to whom the club owes a large debt of gratitude, it has been...