Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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No kind-hearted man can possibly have any objection to having the youth of Cambridge disport themselves on the gently sloping hill that leads down from President Eliot's house to the Library, when the hard frozen snow invites to sleds and toboggaus. But we do object to having the...
The objection first raised is absolutely nonsensical, for the rent of the lockers would more than pay for the cost of making them. The second objection is too puerile to answer. There is little hope. In spite of all we may say, the lockers will probably still remain locked up...
Obviously the only objection to the whole plan lies in the extra time required. Certainly an increase of ten minutes in the length of the Chapel service would be deemed too great a change by many. But much may be said in five minutes or less and the time might...
Another objection is that three eights cannot race on the Thames course with equal conditions to each. Any one who has rowed on the river cannot fail to have noticed how much the tide and wind may be of advantage or disadvantage, - as Yale found out to her cost. And...
Considerable dissatisfaction is felt among the foot-ball enthusiasts at New Haven at the manner in which they think Yale was treated at the recent inter-collegiate foot-ball convention in New York. The feeling here is that Princeton, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania joined forces and advanced a...