Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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4One of the most important literary contribution a Harvard man has made of late years so a treatise just issued on the "Law of Private Corporations" having capital stock, by Henry O. Taylor, '78. The object of this treatise is to give an accurate statement of the law regulating business enterprises which are prosecuted through the instrumentality of corporate organization; to define the rights and liabilities of the different classes of persons interested; and to treat of those rights and liabilities according to the manner in which they come before the courts for determination. To accomplish this the writer, having...
...distinguish himself that he might be used "like a lord," and that the "reputation of great learning might do the work of a blue ribbon and a coach-and-six." Numbers, too, like Charles Lamb, are carried away with the idea that a life of leisure is the great object to be sought after...
...beautiful. The first views were photographs of the Lower Piazza, and the Ducal Palace. Then the lecturer presented views of St. marks, both from the interior and exterior. The photographs of the altar rail and the south end of the Vestibule were especially noticeable. The Campanile was the next object described, the lecturer dwelling at length upon the beautiful views which lay in sight from its upper windows...
...effort is being made by a few of the instructors in political economy, aided by some of the students, to enroll as many Massachusetts students as possible in the Massachusetts Tariff Reform League, the object of which is a reduction in the present tariff rates. While we do not intend to advocate either side of the great struggle which is going on between the tariff men and the revenue reformers, the subject certainly deserves to receive careful consideration at the hands of every student, if he has not already done so. The present canvass, which is, however, confined...
They do not object on such occasion to cheering, to music, or illuminations by lanterns, gas, or Bengal lights in the yard, or to fireworks on Jarvis or Holmes field, provided that all demonstrations cease by eleven o'clock P. M. They object to and forbid bonfires, horn-blowing, and noisy or dangerous fireworks...