Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students in college little realize what a priceless boon has been extended to them. A firm has been established in Chicago known as the "Student's Literary Bureau," whose object will be to write "essays, orations and poems on every conceivable subject or theme." The terms are at the rate of one dollar for a single oration or essay. It is to be hoped that the firm will not be favored with many calls from this quarter.- (Amherst Student...
...capitalist. Up to 1873 he was known to the public only as a shrewd business man of a retiring and rather eccentric nature. In that year he surprised everyone by making over his entire fortune to a board of trustees to be expended for public and scientifle purposes. The object to which he devoted the large sum, $700,000, was for the construction of a telescope "larger and more powerful than any ever made before," together with an observatory which should be connected with...
...association has done what was best under the existing circumstances. For ourselves, we think the sparring events are undesirable for ladies' day, and should be happy to see then omitted. But if this cannot be-if the only alternative is no ladies' day-then the gentlemen whose friends object to sparring can attend the third meeting, while those who enjoy this sport can be accommodated on the second day as well...
...students individually, and to the college, it is but right to add that this communication is in no sense an appeal for subscriptions. I wish simply to give to those who may be willing to subscribe, a definite assurance that the proposed contribution would fully accomplish its object...
...gallery? Who wants to forget it? Some have almost irreverently called it the "upper world," from which angels at times appear and look down upon the wicked and busy mortals below. Once, we are told, a sweet scented rose fell from this ethereal region. This sacred region is the object of no little worship. I remember once watching the men as they filed into the hall, and I can safely say that I saw nine out of every ten who entered, look up to the gallery, often even before they were seated at table, and without fail afterwards. Then next...