Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Additions to amendments, or repeal of any article of these by-laws may be made by a two-thirds vote of the members present at the annual meeting called for that purpose, upon the notice of its object...
...York "Graphic" says: "On principal observatories all work at specialities. At Harvard the relative magnitude of the stars is the principal object of study...
...prayer petition from the O. K. Society. We print it because it is a matter in which every undergraduate is, or ought to be deeply interested. Moreover, this document is the fullest and ablest presentation of the question which has yet appeared in any college paper. Doubtless many will object to some of the views set forth. But no statement has been made in the petition which has not been carefully considered by those who have tried to think clearly and conscientiously on the topic; no stand has been taken without being thoroughly discussed. Accordingly, we believe that this petition...
...compulsory. In our day there is not that unanimity of feeling which makes the expression of the aspirations of all in a single form possible; what alone is sacred to one is wholly unmeaning to his neighbor. To make prayers compulsory, then, would in itself defeat their object, since they could not be for all an occasion of worship...
...accomplish this object, one change among others seems necessary in this service - to omit all extemporaneous prayer. If the student goes to pray, he must not be exposed to the caprices of any individual; he must not be waiting to hear what he is to pray for; he must be borne along by a familiar service which gives utterance to the primary, daily needs of every man. References to passing events may serve to attract attention - if made eloquently they may move, if made blunderingly they may amuse or disgust - but the office of daily prayers is to bring...