Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more general conclusions that athletics are diverting the students from the object for which they are sent to college, I think, in order not to give an unfair picture, it should be stated that side by side with the increase in athletics, there has been a marked increase in the intellectual activity of the students. Formerly 33 per cent. was the minimum required in each course for a degree, I believe. Now the minimum is 40 per cent., and in addition to that, the student must stand above 65 per cent. in at least one-quarter of his studies...
...cannot let the last freak of the Lampoon go unnoticed. That publication has declared its intention of caricaturing members of the University whenever a fitting opportunity presents itself. Now that kind of thing was tried when the Lampoon was first started, and the consequences were disastrous. College opinion objected, and with justice, to this degraded form of wit; and we beg to warn the Lampoon that it is more than probable that college opinion will object again. There is plenty of wit and versatility in a big university like this without resorting to the low methods of political publications...
...understand it, the views of the faculty upon the subject are these: they object to our playing with professionals, as is well known, on the ground that they fear "contamination" and a "degradation of college spirit of honor and fair play." It is also well known that it is the desire of many of the faculty that intercollegiate sports should be narrowed down to contests between Harvard and Yale. This is the opinion of the conservative element. Having reduced the contests to Harvard and Yale, the faculty feel that they can bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Yale faculty...
...brotherhood does not benefit the community, since (a) by its action commerce is obstructed: Boston Herald, March 8; Nation, March 8, 1888. (b) And property destroyed. The object of the order is selfish: Taussig, South-Western Strike, Quarterly Journal of Economics...
...talking. To men who are given to such practices as these, it may be entirely futile to point out to their callous sense of honor that they not only show the greatest disrespect to their instructors, not only waste their time and utterly loose sight of the prime object of a man's entering college, but also become exceedingly obnoxious to a large majority of the class. The only way to crush out this disgraceful disposition on the part of a few is for public opinion to make it so hot for them that they will either keep away entirely...