Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The editorial in the current Spirit of the Times on the "Eternal Yale-Harvard Quarrel," however well intended, is certainly ill-advised. The very objection it urges against the journals of the two universities must be urged with double force against the Spirit itself. If its editor fears that the...
All will agree that regular gymnasium exercise and out of door sports are not only desirable, but indispensable to the physical welfare of students. Now if our nines, our elevens, and our crews were given up, who could doubt but that an immense diminution would take place in athletic interests...
As to your other correspondent's objection that the tickets would be sold to outsiders, could not a system of signatures, and the "rebates" of the late railroad war, be adopted? Some plan similar to this might be found practicable.
An answer to the objection raised by the correspondent of the Advertiser against the revoking of degrees by the corporation of Harvard has appeared. If, says this rejoinder, the degrees are voted subject to an expressly reserved power of revocation remaining in the corporation, or even deputed by the corporation...
The objection that Matthew Arnold made to receiving the title of professor - that so many better entitled to it - professors of dancing, of mesmerism and the like - already bear it, is well know. The Burlington Hawkeye, with its usual forcible style, hits off the same weakness as follows: "A man...