Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter is so unusual as to deserve comment and praise. The college evidently considers a dozen or so of permanent fire escapes as too heavy an expenditure to be made for the trivial purpose of insuring the safety of occupants of the dormitories, but on urgent warning does not object to drilling its employes in the use of cumbersome fire ladders. This is a distinction entirely worthy of so "conservative" a body as the Harvard Corporation...
...vote its property to themselves or to any one of their number. The defendants' counsel urged chiefly that the bill should be dismissed because it was too frivolous to be entitled to the attention of the court. This view the counsel on the other side contested, urging that the object of the suit was an article of special and particular value, and that the suitors, both in age and intelligence, were entitled to the respect of the court. Decision was reserved...
...lacrosse men held a meeting last evening in Mass. 2 to consider the question of grounds for next year. Mr. Robert Sturgis (Law School) was elected chairman. The chairman then stated the object of the meeting, and showed the importance of having a suitable field for practice. A motion was then made that a committee of three, including the chairman, be appointed to investigate the merits of the different fields. The chairman appointed Messrs. Noble and Williams as the other committee men. The attention of the committee was called to the field which has been kindly offered by Professor Norton...
Lasell girls are to wear uniforms next year, and some of the girls object on the ground that the uniforms chosen don't suit their style of beauty...
...runs were taken and always out of doors, no matter what condition the elements might be in. Turning over the leaves of the record, Captain Hull said: 'Here is the record of our last run, five miles; these were always at a steady pace, improvement, not distress, being their object.' On February 20, the ice was out of the river, and work on the water was resumed, the gymnasium exercise and running being both dispensed with. Both eights were put to work again as in the fall, and on April 1 the crew, as at present constituted, was decided upon...