Word: objection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Department of Geology has arranged for two excursions during the April recess, as before announced. Professor Davis will conduct one party to the middle Susquehanna district with the object of studying the deflected tributaries of the Susquehanna River. The reading reference is "The Rivers and Valleys of Pennsylvania," by W. M. Davis in the Nat. Geographic Mag., Vol. I, 1889: pages 241-243. The party leaves New York (via ferry) from the station of the Deleware, Lackawanna and Western R. R. on Saturday, April 18, at 9 a. m. There will probably be reduced travelling rates. Professor Davis...
...choral class is composed of nearly 100 men from Harvard, and of about 50 girls from Radcliffe. It has simply been a class for training those whose voices were sufficiently good to pay for their development. To use the words of Mr. Frese, the vocal instructor, the chief object has been "to teach the people at large to sing...
...primary object of the society was to arrange for courses of lectures by well qualified men on subjects connected with the history of Harvard and on famous graduates. In accordance with this purpose the present course of lectures which has proved so successful was arranged. Another object is to mark properly all objects of historic interest connected with the University...
...others have restored her "juggling with the apple," still others have placed a column for her arm to rest upon. The figure probably stood close up against something, her left arm resting upon some support, her right arm bent across the body, and her left foot resting upon some object...
...ideal state of Plato was to be governed by the aristocracy, who should be philosophers. Plato believed that they were the only ones competent to rule a state. The true object of teaching the guardians of the state was not to show them anything new, but rather to show them things in their true light. Their minds were to be turned from the fleeting to the eternal...