Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...column of your valuable editorial space in trying to answer it? In justice to myself I may say that I have never had other than the very pleasantest relations with the library authorities, and I do not remember having incurred this year any of the penalties to which I object. The Malden and the Boston Public Libraries inflict fines of only two cents a day, and each has to deal with a much larger and more troublesome class of users than does Gore Hall. You quote me as claiming that the student "should be notified when the time is expiring...
After the Hemenway gymnasium had entered on its second year, cleats were introduced for the feet, and the object became, as it is at present, to gain the most rope possible during five minutes. All the four men lay on the rope, raising with a spring, as if to get a new drop, when they heaved. In the out-door pulls, the teams burrowed holes for their feet, pulling furiously, and covered with dust...
...real science of the tug-of-war was yet to come, however. In 1882 the belt was introduced, by means of which the strain on the rope was made constant, and could be increased permanently at the will of either anchor. At present it is the object of both teams to drop as quickly as possible, the best teams giving a heave as they go down, and gaining several inches thereby. There are two ways of lying on the ropes, but all Harvard men pull with one leg across the rope, and the body resting on one side. The back...
...object of these papers is to give a readable history of the part Harvard base ball nines have played in the athletic life of the college since 1866, and to show the development of the game to a science. Let us begin with...
...object of the nine," says the Advocate, "in making the proposed trip is not to win balls and a great reputation; but simply to get practice and to let it be known that there is such a club as the Harvard in existence...