Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only this. Failure on any one's part to comply with the requests made in the notices of the different secretaries of clubs and societies, not only inconveniences the photographer, but shows a disregard of the feelings and desires of others, and help to defeat the very object for which the custom of group photographs was established and is now maintained...
...alive to-day would show that notoriety is attained now as it was at the periods in which they lived. The two artists who will be ranked as the great artists of this century are Meissonier and Adolf Mensel. Yet these two are essentially different. The former is the object of extraordinary notoriety which he himself fosters and although attaining some excellencies never reached before he is a pronounced example of the artist striving after a coarse publicity. Mensel is a true artist. The notoriety which he enjoys is spontaneous on the part of the public, - it cannot be checked...
...enough to be so in spite of all hindrance, he ought not to be one at all. In medicine particularly a man is confined to his work, and he is unfortunate who cannot find his enjoyment in this work. While a physician should always have in mind the great object of the profession, - the doing of good to his fellowmen, - there is still to be regarded the aim of earning a livelihood. With this aim the world gets along better than if all men were distinguished philanthropists. Abroad, the profession is under supervision of government. Here the government exercises...
...correspondent of yesterday seems to be somewhat mistaken as to the object in changing the marking system from one of percentages to one of broad classifications. He thinks that the purpose is to "alleviate the burden of examinations." Unless we greatly err, the matter of alleviating the burden does not come into the question; the aim is merely to mark more justly. As a rule, it will be easier to decide whether a blue book is fair or good than it will be to determine the exact per cent. which it deserves. For this reason then the Conference Committee recommended...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Perhaps the writer is mistaken in the object of the desired change of the present marking system, but it seems to him that the object is to alleviate the burden of examinations...