Word: objection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first of the William Belden Noble lectures which is to be given in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening marks the beginning of what promises to be an interesting and notable course. The speakers who are chosen are sure to have a large hearing, and to render successful the object of the lectures; to extend the influence of religion throughout the University. The founder of the course should receive the thanks of the University for making it possible to hear men of distinction speak on such interesting subjects...
...Harvard men, who would not object to add a little to their means, to sell on commission two of the most popular and racy wheels on the market. Address, by mail, M. L. J., Harvard Crimson...
...this it seems that wearing the caps would be very significant, for if a man had on the cap it would be just as apparent that he was a Senior as it would be if he had on both the cap and gown, and this is the main object of wearing either of them, that a man may wear something which makes him appear a Senior, not for the benefit of other classes but to give the graduating class a more united feeling. Then besides, the gown is a very clumsy thing to wear and is also very...
...reading the "Martyrs" of Chateaubriand and the novels of Walter Scott that Augustin Thierry felt himself develop into an historian. His object was to establish peace between science and art, with scientific and artistic arrangement of material. He is endowed with an imagination which raises images, landscapes and people before the eyes of the reader. His histories where he describes events, paints scenes and outlines characters,- for instance, the "Conquete de l'Angleterre par les Normands" and "Recits Merovingiens,"- are very close in style to novels or epic poems...
...meeting these objections the report of the Committee to the Board of Overseers first argued "that while it is easy to understand why the Corporation should object to discussion about lands remote from the present property, it can do no harm to suggest such approaches as it might be expected the public spirit of the city would supply as a part of their park system, or to form conjectures as to the improvement of the present grounds, if contiguous property, that everybody knows the college would gladly own, were obtained...