Word: objection
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pede altero might not be used in some cases. If Mr. Reiley were to call on Mr. Allen, we think the result might be thus described: Alanus, stans pede altero, altero Reileium foras extrusit. There is also the brilliant remark that "compulit (instead of coegit) never occurs with an object infinitive in good Latin." E. g. Ovid (Fasti, III. 860): Compulerunt regem jussa nefanda pati...
...object of the offensive articles was to sell the paper, they have been eminently successful, for dozens of Harvard men have purchased these monuments of Yale's lack of courtesy. If their object was to widen the breach which exists between the two colleges, they were equally well adapted to their purpose. But they have certainly injured the reputation of Yale in other colleges, and it is to be hoped that they have injured the Record among the better classes at Yale...
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DESPITE the fact that the prevailing times are known as hard, and that the students have been solicited for contributions in aid of various objects to such an extent that they now instinctively shudder when they see approaching them one of those solicitors who with eager eye and hungry look stalk abroad seeking whom they may devour, still, in the face of these facts, this article is written for the purpose of setting forth another object which will demand pecuniary aid from the students, but which has one advantage over previous one namely, that the contributors have...
...will fail to contribute what they otherwise would have had they been requested to do so while in college. Also students, as a rule, are better able to subscribe while in college than they are for several years after graduation; and if a call for money to aid an object of this kind is to be made upon a class in college, it ought certainly to be made in the Junior rather than the Senior year, when the expenses of a student are heavier than at any other time...