Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oarsman, is instructing the 'varsity eight. So, if they don't have the genuine English stroke this year the blues never will How that will compare with Harvard's waterman's stroke we shall know when the race at New London is rowed. It is, of course, possible to object strongly to this professional training, and a great many college men do not approve it; but if Harvard has it Yale will, and vice versa. And under such circumstances the defeated crew will bear defeat more bravely." - N. Y. Tribune...
Harvard '89, has refused the freshman challenge to the boat race, but has consented to row her in the same race with Columbia if the latter does not object. - Yale News...
...other occupations. Able men are well paid; others do not earn good pay, and very naturally cry out against the profession. It might be added, too, that not a few, who say newspaper men are poorly paid, speak from very personal interests. Journalists or would be journalists very naturally object to increase of competition...
...advance sheets give promise of an exceedingly good number. Two of the articles in the number are of peculiar interest to college readers. "What do we Know About John Harvard?" by Dr. Hart, cannot fail to receive the careful attention which it deserves from all Harvard men. The object of the article which is "to select and group together everything that is positively established as to John Harvard," makes it perhaps the most distinctly valuable contribution that has yet appeared in the Monthly. It is certainly this to Harvard readers. The other of the two articles, "Unimaginary Conversation," has special...
...prominent Bostonians, together with accurate histories of the persons in question, and spicy accounts of their personal habits, would be quite in line with this sort of journalism, and would, doubtless, prove entertaining reading. Yet it might be that the subjects of this sort of descriptive writing would object. It is not everybody that cares to invite the world into his chamber to inspect his bric-a-brac, and chat over his personal peculiarities. For this reason, then, it is to be hoped that the "Globe" will change slightly the general plan of the next article on Harvard "home life...