Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Willistonian is publishing a series of articles on Harvard and Yale. The object of the articles is to show the advantages of a course at either college...
...meeting of the freshman class will be held in Lower Massachusetts this afternoon at two o'clock. The principal object for which the meeting is called is to decide what shall be done with the foot-ball surplus. About four hundred dollars are now in the hands of the manager of the foot-ball team, and it is his purpose to put this sum at the disposal of the class. It is an unusually large amount which the class will have the disposal of, and it is to be hoped that the members of '92 will make a wise disposition...
...most remote period at which we have the slightest historical knowledge of Greece, the oracle at Delphi has been an object of peculiar importance. To the ancient Greeks it was a real source of communication between this and another world. They were sincere in the divinity of the oracle, and they had perfect faith that the communications which they received through the lips of the priestess came from a god whose powers of prophecy were unlimited. The communications received through the lips of the Pythia undoubtedly contained much of truth and falsity mixed together; but they were, nevertheless...
...becomes advisable to hold such courses, the necessary steps will be taken. The students will be graduates of other colleges, and will go to Clark University to take advanced courses in mental and physical science, instead of going to German universities as is the present custom. The object is thus to establish an American university which will be able to vie with European ones...
Professor Goodale defined the scientific method, now generally used in almost all departments of inquiry, as the straightforward method of investigation. First of all, he student examines a given object or phenomenon from all possible points of view and compares these results with those obtained by a similar examination of other objects and phenomena, endeavoring to ascertain what they may have in common. Thus he is prepared to formulate general statements. From such inductions he proceeds to justifiable deductions. and thence to inductions of higher orders. His most useful instruments of research are hypothesis and experiment. The demands made...