Word: objection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gamins who flock into the College grounds, especially during the latter part of the day, have grown so numer-out of late that they are rapidly becoming nuisances. No one objects because a moderate number of people use the College yard as a thoroughfare; a good many object to having the yard turned into a public common...
...would be difficult to enforce the law: (a) Kitchen bar-rooms and pocket peddlers. (b) Americans object to espionage. (c) Possibility of sale through (1) prescriptions and (2) clubs...
...meeting of the teachers and others interested in the Prospect Union will be held in Wadsworth House this afternoon. The object of this meeting is the discussion of the plan of moving the Union into new quarters. It is felt that since the Prospect Union is really a college institution, largely managed by college men, no such important step as moving into new quarters should be undertaken without explaining it to the college and giving the students a chance to discuss it. All men who have ever taught at the Union and any others who feel interested in the work...
...transition from University life to that of the outside world. University life, he said, is often thought to unfit a man for success in after life, and the question arises, is the scientific training of the University ethically so different from that necessary to attain a definite object, that in which worldly success exists, that it renders a man unable to accomplish anything after his college training? In this connection a college training is understood as a thorough training in science, the bringing of a man into the scientific spirit, of which the chief law is first to obtain facts...
...stereoscope teaches us that what produces relief and perspective is that we see round the object, and not only that, but also that we have two images of it, each subtending a different angle and so modifying each other as to produce truth in the resultant impression. And even then, it is only repeated experience from different points of view which enables us to see even familiar objects precisely as they are. The same is true, nay, almost more true, of the eyes of the mind, and the defining of transient images into precise and permanent ideas, real possessions...