Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first place, the Committee, at the suggestion of the Advisory Committee on Boating, object to the further employment of Mr. Bancroft. Further, they object to the employment of any paid coach for the crew. As the second objection covers the first, we can drop Mr. Bancroft's name from the discussion, and consider the advisability of retaining a paid coach. The general explanation offered by the Committee for their course of action, is as follows. Athletics at Harvard must be freed from all objectionable features. The onward march toward professionalism is to be stopped, and a step backwards taken...
...gymnasium. He is to look after the general physical welfare of the students and not to devote himself to any specialty. In appointing any man for a special sport, as base ball, or rowing, they would be encouraging a professional spirit, which it is their object to quench...
...coach, like Mr. Bancroft, a college graduate, never interested in boating outside of college, is not a professional according to the definition of the word as accepted by the Athletic Committee. Therefore, any objection to a man like Mr. Bancroft on the ground that he is a professional cannot be urged. The Committee simply object to a paid coach, even if he is a Harvard graduate, and the most successful captain and coach ever at college...
...lecture association has been formed at Dartmouth composed of a number of students and two of the faculty, the object of which is to furnish a series of entertainments during the coming winter...
...petition as it now stands, no undergraduate can object. There will be a canvass of the college, and we hope that everyone will sign. If everyone will show an interest in this movement, we have better prospects of succeeding than we have ever had before...