Word: objection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...anything more wearisome in the attainment. But the moment you have a definite aim, attention is quickened, the mother of memory, and all that you acquire groups and arranges itself in an order that is lucid, because everywhere and always it is in intelligent relation to a central object of constant and growing interest. This method forces upon us the necessity of thinking, which is, after all, the highest result of all education. For what we want is not learning, but knowledge; that is, the power to make learning answer its true end as a quickener of intelligence...
...whom stand Titian, Gorgona, Tintoretto, and Verrezana. The doings of these four are of the greatest importance in the history of art, not only because of what they built up but because of what they pulled down. It was they who dealt the death blow to religion as the object of art. This does not mean that religious subjects were discarded by them, but that they sought art truth rather than religious truth. For them a Venus was as good as a Madonna. They were interested in art for art's sake, not for the sake of religion...
...action takes place in Granada, in the castle and grounds of the Caliph. An astronomer and Captain of the Guard in the service of the Caliph become incensed at certain trickery which he has played upon them and determine to obtain revenge. With this object they ally themselves with a queen who has been discarded from the Caliph's Harem and a soubrette from a travelling company. The Caliph has offered a prize to the person who shall bring him the most beautiful woman. For this the soubrette and the queen determine to compete. Thoroughly disguised and made...
...generally understood that the meeting in Sanders Theatre, addressed by President Eliot, Mr. Storey and Mr. Dana, was an attempt to accomplish partly this object. Public speakers of high character such as Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Schurz, ev-Governor Russell, who have already consented to address the University, will from time to time present the reform question in all its aspects. Minor addresses, to the club particularly, as to the workings of the reform in various definite parts of the country will also be given...
...college do so for the sake of the reform. It is a work which should appeal to the patriotic spirit of every American, and especially of every college man. I ask every man interested in pure and efficient government if the support of the club is not a worthy object of his consideration? Membership blanks and copies of the constitution will be funished upon application to 42 Kirkland street...