Word: objection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cheap editions, or taken out of the library. While the course will be an unusually interesting one, it will be seen that it will require a fair amount of outside work, and no one who is unwilling to give sufficient time to the subject should elect it. The primary object is to make men read current literature intelligently and to establish sound principles of criticism...
...Copeland dwelt briefly on Hawthorne and Thoreau, and then gave an account of a visit to Concord a year ago. The old Manse is, to his thinking, the most impressive object in Concord, and among many things which every American would care to see, the speaker described French's bronze statue of the Minute Man, and the simply commemorated graves of Emerson and Hawthorne...
...believe, in consideration of the fact that compulsion defeats its object, that a system of optional chapel is the only true and potent means of securing a just recognition on the part of the student body of the claims of religion...
...such purpose, and it devolves upon the Harvard Club to raise the necessary money. If every member of the club will renew his subscription for the coming year (which is now due) the club can send a delegate to the convention; while the present opportunity to further the object of Civil Service Reform ought not to be lost by those who have not joined the club but are in sympathy with its purposes...
...from the city of Florence, and Italy. In the midst of confusion and strife Dante lifted up his voice, as one crying in the wilderness, preaching peace. His treatise De Monarchia is not the dry product of the understanding, but the living, inmost thought of a man, whose one object is the welfare of his fellowmen. He believed that truth must be spoken at all hazards, and this work was written at the risk of offending the most powerful persons in Florence. Whether as poet or philosopher or prophet, Dante's one strong purpose always remained unchanged. No servant...