Word: objection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is a point well taken in the communication which we publish this morning on the hare and hounds runs. From the standpoint of the Athletic Association, the chief object of these runs is to bring out a large number of men and by this means to increase the possibilities of discovering new material for the track. In order to accomplish this end the runs must offer the greatest possible attractions to such men as do not have any special idea of prize winning. Cross country running, to be sure, must, if the name is to signify anything, be through...
...Pedagogical Club was organized in the last part of last year, the object being "to awaken interest in pedagogics among the members of the University, to further the study of education and teaching in the University, and to offer the members opportunity for the discussion of educational topics." Professor Hanus has appointed a committee, consisting of A. O. Norton, chairman, M. C. Leonard, G. I. Clapp, W. H. Smith, and F. R. Hodge, to re-organize the club...
...object of the club is to keep up Maine interests at Harvard, and also to keep up Harvard interests in Maine...
...tickets this year are in a number of respects different from those of last year. They have the same steel plate engraving on the back as last year, but the color has been changed and the workmanship is better. The object of this engraving is to prevent counterfeiting, yet even this safeguard has not prevented some counterfeiting in the past. The face of the tickets is quite different. For one thing, the letters and numbers of the sections, rows and seats are made much more prominent. Applications are now beginning to come in fast...
...college editors and by whatever prestige the name, in itself, might give. Now we believe that such things will not raise papers in general estimation. If papers are to win esteem, they must do so by making themselves more useful to the college world. Any scheme for accomplishing the object by simply banding together rests the thing on an unsound supposition...