Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Letter Carrier's Benefit Association will give a grand entertainment at the Mechanics' Association Building Saturday evening, May 20. The object is a worthy one and it deserves to be well patronized...
...small but deeply interested audience attended the lecture of Professor Packard of Yale on the "OEdipus Tyrannus." The subject is one specially interesting to students at Harvard, and Professor Packard handled his text in a manner quite acceptable to his audience. Taking the object of this course of lectures into account, it is a matter of surprise that there was not a larger audience present...
Tennis-players are indefatigable and persistent. Their industry and enthusiasm is generally to be admired. Nevertheless, we have heard the fastidious object to one extreme to which the eagerness of the players of this fascinating game often leads them. That, in the very midst of the most exciting match games with different colleges, played on Jarvis or Holmes, tennis courts should be in active operation in the near vicinity, utterly regardless of the patriotic contest going on so near, does seem remarkable, to say the least. The bobbing of a tennis ball is a delightful sight-in its proper time...
...glad to notice that with the advent of spring a new interest in bicycling has been awakened, and a greater proportion of men are seen indulging in this really very beneficial exercise, for who can deny that as exercise it is beneficial? It is true that many physicians object very strongly to the wheel, and prophecy many injurious results that will arise from its use. How true and accurate these prophecies are, all who have ridden a bicycle for any length of time, who have experienced the exhilaration of whirling rapidly along in a manner which seems contrary...
...their brothers to protect their reputation and assert their merit." "Harvard indifference" again, we hear Snodkins whisper! They truly claim, I think, "that the poetico-bombastick style of newspaper eloquence, which has been often and liberally ascribed to college, is as little the defect of our execution, as the object of our ambition." Very bitterly they continue: "The world without cares for nothing but politicks and commerce and news; it is a money-making, quarrelsome world of vandals; it cannot understand our Latin nor our Greek, and it thinks our English not worth reading; it scorns our literature...