Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students are present. The new system allows the student to cut one-tenth of the required exercises, e. g., seven out of the seventy chapel exercises this term, without rendering an excuse. The trustees and faculty are practically unanimous in supporting this number of services, but the students strongly object to more that one compulsory service on Sunday. The afternoon church is in great disfavor among the students, it being the general opinion that the only object of its existence is to keep the men in town. Efforts are continually being made to have it abolished, and it is thought...
...teaching of the young. Such men are needed now. As the laws of choice of a profession Mr. Hale named first to select one vocation. An avocation was also well to have and necessary, but it must be an avocation. Every man has his ideal life to lead, the object of his day dreams, and this is the answer to his question, what profession to choose, and what life to lead...
...bright telescopic comet about 2 1/4 north of the star Beta, in constellation Pegasus, having a tail about half a degree long, and slow eastward motion; about R. A. 22h. 50m., about N. Dec. 29. This is the first comet of the year, and promises to be a conspicuous object in the western...
...Senate, on Saturday, Mr. Bayard offered an amendment to the freebook bill, giving individuals the right to import books, etc., for their own use and not for sale, free of duty. Mr. Bayard explained that his object was to give poor scholars and students cheaper foreign books...
...HERALD. The prospects for a good nine are excellent, if faithful practice is kept up through the spring. To these, as well as to candidates for the university nine, we commend the advice of Captain Crocker, to make base-ball, next to study, the primary and not the secondary object of attention...