Word: objection
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...grounds for this neglect are, that the object of the study is the interpretation of Shakespeare, and that elocution has nothing to do with it As has already been pointed out, we are talking, not of elocution or dramatic reading, but simply of intelligent reading, and this certainly has to do with the interpretation of Shakespeare; for no one who conclusively proves by his reading of a passage that he does not understand it can still pretend that he is able to interpret it; whereas any one who reads the passage clearly, interprets it by doing...
...object of these words is not to find fault with the work of this year, but to show what another year may be made to bring forth. Mr. Child is beyond doubt in the right about the elocution question; but if he would make it clearly understood that good reading is a desideratum in his classes, and if the students would endeavor simply to pay attention and to be interested (if they did this they would be obliged to read well), then both the advantage and the enjoyment of the course would be doubled. It is somnambulistic and apathetic reading...
...teacher. In that capacity he is regarded by the students as competent and faithful, and his duties are performed in the most conscientious manner. But this does not prevent our condemnation of his system of marking, which we regard as absolutely wrong. Solid substantial instruction is the main object in taking any elective, and marks, whether high or low, cannot affect the student's real acquirements; but so long as he is required, in order to test the faithful performance of duty, to submit to examinations, upon the result of which college rank is made to depend, such examinations should...
THEY play cricket even in India. A team of Parsee cricketers, the champions of India, will visit England next June with the object of playing a series of matches against English clubs...
...fourth session of the Summer School of Geology will be held, as were the first and second sessions, in connection with the field-work of the Kentucky Geological Survey. The object will be to afford field practice on the various problems of Physical Geology accessible between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains. Persons may enter upon their work at any time after June 15. The fee for instruction and the use of camp equipage will be fifty dollars for the term of six weeks. Board in camp will be about five dollars per week. The school will be under...