Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...print this morning a description of the Society for Political Education, in the hope that some of our readers will be led to look into the matter and join the society. It seems to us that the society ought to have a large representation at Harvard. Its object, certainly, is an excellent one. One of the difficult things nowadays, is for the ordinary citizen, who has not devoted himself to the study of political science, to understand the political questions of the day. The newspapers are, for the most part, too superficial or partisan to be good instructors...
...look upon the case of the aged undergraduate in a Vermont college, who entered with '32 and is to graduate with '85, and from the example thus set before him draw hope. It is true that some of us, who live at the rate of $1.500 a year, might object to expending such a large sum as $79.500 to attain A. B. as an appendix to our names, but still, chacun a son gout...
...study to Latin or Greek, Turn with eager desire and with persevering zeal to the study of English. I have seen the study of English spread like a contagion through all the grades of undergraduate life, till even the idlest and the feeblest were moved to labor for an object that even the dullest could appreciate as desirable...
...public concert in some large hall in Boston, given by the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality for the benefit of the University Boat Club, is one which meets with our heartiest support. If the clubs are able and willing to give such an entertainment and the faculty does not object, the success of the affair cannot be for a moment doubtful. We all know what a hearty reception any entertainment given by Harvard men always receives in Boston, and the proposed concert would be no exception in such a music loving city. It will also give the men in college...
Last evening the Shakespeare Club held its first public meeting before a fair sized audience of ladies and gentlemen. The President, Mr. Jones, briefly stated that the object of the club was to cultivate the art of speaking in public, and that it was the intention of the club to continue these public meetings at intervals throughout the year. The selections, he said, had been prepared by the speakers without any drill or assistance whatever, on the part of the instructors in elocution...