Word: objection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...call attention to a matter which I think deserves consideration. The winter trip of our musical clubs. Every year practically the same circuit is made - Washington, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, etc. The smaller cities of the west and all the cities of the south are ignored, If the object of these winter trips is to awaken an interest in Harvard in the sections of the country where little is known of the University - the clubs have certainly mistaken their mission if we are to judge from the circuit they take. Indianapolis, Omaha, Denver, Louisville, Nashville and Atlanta are never visited...
...Parnell was a worthy and effective champion of the Irish cause. - (a) He united the Irish people on a definite object; Public Opinion, Oct. 17, 1891. - (b) He disciplined the Irish Parliamentary party to act as a unit; Nation, vol. 41, p. 254. - (c) He contributed to the cause his own unrivalled skill as a parliamentarian and a leader of men: Spectator, Oct. 10, '91; Nation, Oct. 15, '91; Public Opinion, Oct. 24, '91; N. A. Review, vol. 144, p. 622; McCarthy in Contemporary Review, Nov. '91. - (d) He substituted constitutional methods fer violence; N. A. Review...
...movement which is being made towards raising a re-endowment fund for Phillips Andover academy is being energetically pushed. Over $40,000 has been subscribed since last spring, and active measures are being taken to raise $20,000 by subscriptions about Boston. The object of the Boston subscriptions is to help pay for the new scientific building which is being built, and which will probably be finished in April at a cost...
...years ago the custom was begun of having an annual foot ball dinner. The first object of this dinner was to recognize the unselfish exertions of the men who work all through the fall as candidates for the eleven. A second, and really more important, object was to bring the University as a whole, the graduates and the undergraduates into closer and better understood relations on athletic matters. The dinner in the two years that it has been held has been one of the most stimulating and helpful occasions of the college year...
...weeks at different times and to assume the personal management of the work by turns. Such an undertaking, however, will require more funds than the Union at present has. To consider this and other plans the managers of the Union have decided to call a meeting this evening, the object being to ascertain how far they can rely on the support of the University...