Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make as little haste as possible in their reading; -that they shall so enunciate each word that the hearers may easily take them down in writing. After the reading is over the Professors shall stop for some time in the recitation rooms and if any scholar shall wish to object to anything they have read, or shall be in doubt on any point, they shall listen to him kindly, and shall explain away his doubts and difficulties...
...opposing each other in three parts of the South, in Virginia, on the Mississippi, and in Tennessee. It is with the operations in this latter place that the subject treated. Rosecrans commanded the Union army of the Cumberland. Opposed to him was General Bragg, with 50,000 Confederates. The object towards which the army under Rosecrans was moving was Chattanooga. This city, a natural fortress, was situated at the base of the mountains in East Tennessee. Here converged all the railway lines which made the easy movements of troops from one part of the South to another possible. Thus...
...these two forces should accomplish their object by the capture and permanent possession of this important city the first step toward a great scheme would be accomplished. Then the loyal citizens of eastern Tennessee would be protected, and Kentucky, free from inroads, would be saved to the Union. Moreover, from Chattanooga railways led either north and east to Lynchburg and Richmond in Virginia, or southeasterly to Atlanta. By following either of these routes the Union generals hoped to break up the Confederacy at a single blow. After much delay Rosecrans moved forward and compelled Bragg who was blocking the road...
...fate of all," wails our fair A. B., "at one period or another, to pass under the microscope of criticism, and the quivering A. B. seems to be allotted an unusual length of time under the "object-glass." How sad! "A three-horned dilemma presents itself at this juncture: First, the new A. B. signally lacks that very perfection in detail which is breath to the nostrils of society. Finesse of manner can be acquired, but the college-bred have an aversion to artificial veneer. "Are you sound at the core" is their text. Second...
...took the matter in hand. That complaints are made about the management of the lectures does not in the least imply that we do not feel grateful. But in the case of a series of lectures, so interesting and so valuable as is the one in question, the object should not be merely to fill the house and give the lecturer a complimentary reception, but the advantage of the greatest number possible. Since the Historical Society has taken the series in hand, it owes it to the college that every practicable arrangement should be made, by which every person, especially...