Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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I anticipate the objection that the upholders of the old system, if such there be, will certainly bring forward, namely, that the new system substitutes wire-pulling and buttonholing among the class in general, instead of confining it to societies individually, - that elections will be run by cliques instead of...
This could be issued as complementary to the list of electives, or could supersede it. If, however, the expense would be an objection, the pamphlet could be put on sale at the bookstores, and we hardly think that the instructors would object to the very slight trouble of preparing such...
''The janitor, Kiernan, after the ringing of the first bell, was wont to go to the house of the clergyman who was to officiate and make sure of his attendance, and on his way back, he passed in the rear of Holworthy, clapping his hands to wake up the Seniors...
In objection to the present hour of dining, it is urged that "it is conducive to neither health, comfort, nor convenience." The first clause of this statement - that the present dinner-hour is not conducive to health - we positively deny. It is, we believe, a fact, and supported by all...
The second method was to form the club by a few of the prominent chess-players in College meeting together and organizing the club by themselves, then, after the club has been thus formed, of electing in the rest. To both these methods, however, there are serious objections. In the...