Word: objection
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...eager for a change say that they ask it not as Episcopalians, but because amusements are suspended at the time when the vacation now comes. This is certainly a more sensible ground to put the request on than the other, but I very much doubt whether the object of the Faculty in giving us vacations is to provide us with amusement...
...misfortune of Mr. Leister of the class of '80 is incorrect, and we sincerely regret that his name appeared in the last Crimson. The report was wide-spread in the College at the time, and we had every reason to suppose that it was true. Our only object in publishing it was to bring forcibly before the minds of hard students the danger of over-work; and though we are happy to learn that the rumor in question is false, the principle remains the same...
...from a set of pipes at the back of the mosque, and this grieved all the youths still more, while some, who sat by the pipes, opened their mouths in agony, but made no sound, respecting, doubtless, the sacredness of the place. This exercise, which seems to have no object, they call in their language Pehn, which means distress or tribulation. As this ceased the young men dashed out, some clearing me at a bound...
...still to be regretted that necessitous parties, who are unwilling to proclaim their condition, are tempted to seek the cheaper colleges. And it is not necessarily a false pride which restrains many parents from exposing their financial condition to the authorities of Harvard College, and causes them to object to have the fact of their pecuniary embarrassment solemnly proclaimed in the Catalogue. The competitive conditions of business and professional life make such expositions simply impossible. The clergy, to be sure, form an exception to this rule as to many others. A country minister, who has a thousand dollars a year...
...wisdom of his choice was soon shown: his Criticisms were brief and to the point, his General Remarks discursive and comprehensive, his Sarcasms stinging and incisive, - so much so that he was an Object of Hate to all the men in that Elective...