Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Burning all his stores there he abandoned it and Sherman at once marched in. The first object of Sherman was attained. In four months with a loss of only 30,000 men he had captured Atlanta, fought a crafty foreman and overcome many natured difficulties. Johnston and Hood had lost 35,000 men. Sherman refitted his army and rested for a month. Mean while Hood began to attack his communications toward Chattanooga. Sherman moved back after him and repaired the railways destroyed. In this manner, one chasing the other, the two armies had almost reached the starting point again. After...
...think it a wretched game," President Eliot is made to say, "but as an object of ambition for the youth to go to college really it is a little weak. There are only nine men who can play the game, and there are 950 men in the college, and out of the nine there are only two desirable positions, I understand-that of pitcher and catcher-so that there is but little chance for the youth to gratify his ambition. I call it one of the worst games, although I know it is called the American national game...
...English stroke is by far the best known. Davis' idea was to put his men into a boat in haphazard style and tell them to pull just as hard as they could. No attention whatever was paid to the position of the body. Physical power was the sole object looked for. His principle was that the human system does not tire. If the men had been engines instead of human beings, Davis's principle would have been a great success...
...understand that the Yale freshmen object to playing the first game with our freshmen in Cambridge. We wish to say to the management of our team that it should insist upon the first game being played here and that any reasons for playing the game at New Haven must be very powerful ones to induce them to yield. For many years the first freshmen game has been played at New Haven and the time has certainly come for a change. This is a great advantage for a team to play its first game on its own grounds and among...
...popular doctrine that college training in this country should be adapted to American habits of life. I think that a higher view should be taken of the question, and that college training should not be adapted to fit a man for any particular vocation. Its object is to give to man the key to that higher life of the human mind which is common to all ages and all nations. [Geo. Wm. Curtis...