Word: objection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Committee on Dramatic Management includes members from various organizations which give plays during the year. Its purpose is to lessen the cost in the production of plays by economizing as regards scenery and other stage details. The object of the Committee on Organizations is to systematize and cooperate with all clubs in the University other than athletic, editorial, and social, for the furtherance of their usefulness in the future...
Africa for centuries has been the object of the cupidity of Europe. England, France, and Germany now occupy the larger part of it, leaving Tripolitania the only important section not in the control of the Christians. Yet this region as it is today is not a country which is fitted to produce on the modern scale. Rivers run through it into the sea, but in the dry season they become simply dried up river beds. So Italy, in undertaking to conquer Tripoli and use it as a colony, must be prepared to spend years in introducing modern methods and systems...
...main object of the lecturer will be to present a clear idea of the existing situation in Tripoli in regard to the Turkish-Italian War, with its causes and effects. In addition to this fundamental topic, Mr. Furlong will give an insight into the most typical of the Barbary Capitals, the focus of the great Saharan caravan routes, with pictures illustrating the half-civilized tribes who inhabit the deserts and tablelands of Tripoli. He will also talk on the life of the Grecian sponge-divers of the Mediterranean, and will describe the dramatic incident of the burning of the United...
President Lowell opened the meeting with an explanation of the "New Harvard Plan" of admission. He showed that this new system will bring Harvard into contact with a wider range of preparatory schools than ever before. Its object is not to get a great many men, but the best ones from all over the country...
...Neilson h. '96, in speaking, told the men to avoid being what are sometimes called knotiess threads, men who pass through College but leave no mark and do no service. There are many of these in each class, the chief trouble being that they have no definite objective in their College lives. One must stand back from one's ideal to get a proper perspective of it. Then, seeing clearly what it is that one wants, one has the first safeguard against being a knotless thread. It is difficult to select one object out of the many offered...