Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...parts. The study of unconscious sources begins with buildings, vases, irons, etc., but it soon advances to the inscriptions on tombs, coins, obelisks. The purpose of these inscriptions was not historic, but such is their use today. The rhetorical panegyric conveys history, although its object is to magnify some popular hero. Letters have been saved from a dim sense of their future use. The separation of the Germans and the French after the dismemberment of the Empire of Charlemagne is shown unconsciously by a treaty between Louis and Charles, his grandchildren, which was sanctioned by an oath repeated by each...
Upper Massachusetts was filled yesterday by freshmen and upper-classmen assembled at the first meeting of the class of '91. After the usual difficulty, Mr. Bangs of Hopkinson's, was elected chairman. On taking the chair he stated that the object of the meeting was the election of officers for the class of ninety-one. He appointed the following men tellers : Messrs. DeNormandie, Crosby, Barlow, Titzhugh and Baldwin. The New York "delegation" objected to Mr. Barlow, and Mr. Gerry was appointed in his place...
...delegates of the intercollegiate association, the secretary of the committee shall convene a meeting both of the advisory committee and of the intercollegiate association, but the same shall be only on five days written notice to the various members and delegates, which notice must contain a statement of the object of the said meetings. The meetings of the present year shall be governed by this section...
...true that this suggestion has come rather late and that a nine made up thus late in the year would have little chance to develop base-ball talent. Nevertheless the primary object - that of giving practice to this year's 'Varsity team - will be accomplished, and besides this, a consolidated team will have been started this year which can be reorganized next season with less trouble than a new nine could be gotten together...
...object of all these courses is to make the students read and form judgments of their own. Here lies one of the most marked differences between the new and old-time modes of teaching English literature. Formerly the students were crammed with facts and dates, such as the time when the authors were born and died, and the names and dates of publication of their principal works. Anything more worthless than this is difficult of conception. Today a practical acquaintance with the works of the authors is the object sought...