Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Peters, '42, as chairman, to take the matter in charge and complete the arrangements. The victories which are to be celebrated are: The football championship since '78 with one year's exception, the baseball championship since '81 with one year's break, and the rowing championship since 1885. The object of the dinner is to recognize "the loyal devotion to Yale shown by conscientious, intelligent and faithful practice which has resulted in this remarkable series of victories. An expression of enthusiasm and approval felt by Yale's graduates on this subject will encourage future contestants and keep alive and stimulate...
...Clayton-Bulwer treaty is no bar to the control of the Panama canal by the United States, as it is voidable at the pleasure of our government.- Wharton's Digest, vol. 2, pp. 238, et seq. (a) The object of the treaty has never been accomplished.- Letter of Frelinghuysen in Foreign Relations of the U. S. for 1882, pp. 271-283; Pomeroy's Int. Law, 357. (b) England has persistently violated the treaty.- Frelinghuysen to Lowell, 5 May, 1883, Foreign Relations of the U. S. for 1883; Wharton's Digest, c. II, 184. (c) The stipulations in the treaty have...
...order to elevate the standard of college entrance examinations, fourteen New England colleges (including Harvard and Yale) have now joined the Commission on Admission Examinations. The commission, which will comprise one faculty member from each college, has still another object in view-the establishment of a system by which the requirements for admission will be more uniform than they are at present. The need of which has been felt by many young men who have been compelled to go to preparatory schools which made a specialty of fitting for some college other than the one they wished to enter. Thus...
Several years ago an attempt was made at Columbia to hold a ball, but owing to the poor reception the ball met with, succeeding classes did not care to renew the experiment. The object in holding the ball was to fill up the gap caused by the absence of real social life and social amusements. This year's junior class has, however, not been deterred by this rather poor precedent from renewing the venture. They decided to hold a Christmas ball in aid of the 'varsity crew and obtained permission from the faculty to use the library tomorrow night...
...book of about 250 pages has been published entitled "Names and Places-Studies of Geographical and Topographical Nomenclature." The object of this book is to explain the origin and meaning of names given to prominent topographical and scenic features with especial reference to this country. Some field work has been done, chiefly in New England, in continuation of the surface geology and glacial deposits of Northeastern North America...