Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Viola Vassar (who is home on her Thanksgiving vacation) says she don't object to a man's staring at her; but when she looks back and finds him looking back too, its too presuming for anything. - [Athenaeum...
...Harvard College the right to run a stable is the important question before the committee on health in Boston. The college authorities desire to erect a stable for disabled horses in connection with the Veterinary School, but certain persons object to this extension of college duties...
...gives a great advantage. Men who have been fitted differently, however, and those who have come from the smaller schools, often with difficulty manage to pass the admission papers, although they may be better versed in the general knowledge of subject, but have not been fitted with the one object of entering Harvard in view, as have those from the large schools. As a result the men from the schools manage to get through a large part of the freshman work on the strength of their fit. It is not until the later years that a man's natural ability...
...Sargent prefaces his article with the remark that "there exists in the public mind a wide spread misapprehension as to the amount and the system of physical training in American colleges," and he states as his object in the article before us "to correct this mistaken notion, and to call the attention of educators to the urgent need of some system of physical exercise in our highest institutions of learning...
...Lanman dwelt especially on the moral effect of athletics. He would fear for the future of a listless boy; but if one had some object to work for - such as was furnished by boating, baseball and foot-ball - it would prove the best possible safeguard against drunkenness and the kindred evils which beset a college life...