Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remark of Lessing, that the second year the truth is more important than the finding of the truth, is thus illustrated. The advantages of this method are great. The use of books and of authorities is taught; and, above all else, a vigorous and discriminating intellectual discipline-the supreme object of all education-is promoted...
...library, a wilderness of black walnut shelves, glass doors, carved tables, Ouida's novels, and long haired grinds. We snub the library, but maintain silence when we are informed that "you can get in, even after four o'clock." Another corridor, a door; we enter, and the first object that meets our eye is a black, battered beaten, Brimless beaver with the magic legend upon it, H. '85, Below the hat is suspended a bottle, a cologne bottle we conjecture. About the broken handles of the wreck of what once might have been a campaign torch are tied three filthy...
...bewildering. In our day the freshman was currently believed to possess no rights which an upper classman was bound to respect. He was despised and rejected. He was the hewer of wood and drawer of water for all his sophomore neighbors. He was regarded as the legitimate and proper object of all manner of "cussing," in dignity and torture. He was hazed. He was smoked out. He was dragged from his bed and given the pump bath. He was caused to mount his table and entertain his visitors with unspontaneous oratory, narrative and song. All these acts of discipline were...
...object is to "break up" the entire catalogue list every day. The students, played upon long benches, will be rapidly projected by an automatic application of pins. The professor will fire a question at each one and undoubtedly get the drop in every instance...
...editor makes the difference between the two papers, we can only say that we consider ourselves extremely fortunate in possessing that one editor. We do not suppose it makes any great difference to our readers how many editors we have as long as the paper satisfies them, but we object to the inference that we have twice as many editors as are necessary for the well being of a Yale paper...