Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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People outside of our sacred precincts form judgments about our college and her work in the same way as the seven blind men received their impressions of that object of interest to them, the elephant...
There are at Harvard about 1600 men; it is a small world in itself; made up, as the outside world is, of the good, bad and indifferent; of those who have high, noble principles, and who are here to work earnestly, and of those who are here without an object, unless to have a good time...
...writer, nearly the whole of these two lectures is devoted to a review of all the petty incidents in this writer's life, and, at the most, one-half hour is spent in the consideration of his writings, it is difficult to believe that we are gaining our object in taking this course. With some authors we might pursue this method with advantage, but it seems to be unnecessary to do so when we come to discuss an author whose life and actions were of such shameless degradation that they should be referred to only in order to subject them...
...firmly that our stand is still unshaken. Our position was well considered before it was taken, and we see, as yet, no cause for retracting a single statement we made. Care needs to be taken by our opponents, as to just what points we have maintained. We do not object to boxing. Indeed, if reports are true, a scientific knowledge of that art may be of benefit to our selves. We have simply claimed in regard to the principle of the petition that the boxing interest in college is not sufficiently general to justify the expense of a salary...
...different men of varying opinions." The exchange of professors, however, the writer concludes, is impracticable. "A constant change" he says, "might impede or even prevent the original researches of many professors," besides putting them to great inconvenience by change of residence and social relations. "But," he continues, "this same object, viz., the extension of the independent judgment of the students, might be furthered in a slightly different manner. When we cannot conveniently move the professors, why should we not move the students? The average student, having no family, might almost as well spend one year in New Haven, another...