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Word: objectionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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It is the object of the Shakspere club to teach the dramatic art to its members, and it was with this object in view that the performance of the play was decided on. An assignment of the parts in the customary manner, however, would defeat this aim. A few men...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Shakspere Club's Performance of Julius Caesar. | 2/23/1885 | See Source »

In regard to the proposition to abolish the customary class-day exercises, the Oberlin Review says : "We understand that the question is coming up of abolishing the class days. Of course, in the past, there have been some reasonable grounds for objection. The principal one is, that they tend to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS-DAY AT OBERLIN. | 2/18/1885 | See Source »

Says Mr. John E. Todd, in a letter recently printed in the New York Times: "The chief objection to the elective system adopted some time ago at Harvard, and more recently at Yale, is that its tendency is to produce specialists instead of men of broad culture and liberal ideas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Education | 2/11/1885 | See Source »

Further, it will be urged that college men in the position of umpires would either be so prejudiced as to show favoritism to their own team, or else so zealous to guard against such favoritism as to give all doubtful decisions to the opposite side. This objection ignores the fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni as Base Ball Umpires. | 2/7/1885 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-The members of the Co-operative have joined the society with the distinct understanding that they were liable to an assessment, in case the society runs into debt. It was stated in the CRIMSON, the other day, that the objection to an assessment was, that it would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CommunicationS. | 2/5/1885 | See Source »

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