Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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CRICKET-MATCH.-Tomorrow there was to have come off an interesting game of cricket between the cricket clubs of Lisbon and Oporto. The object of the formation of these societies is the playing of the game of cricket-match, an active, running, driving, jumping game, which only can be played by a person having a good pair of legs and in a climate where warmed punch is found insufficient to keep up the animal heat. Does the reader know how to play a game at cricket-match? Two posts are placed at a great distance from one another. The player...
...association of collegiate alumnae has been organized, whose object is the uniting of the alumnae of different institutions for practical educational work...
...series of lectures, addressed to the students of theology but open to the public, will be given in the chapel of Divinity Hall, on Thursday evenings, beginning February 21. They are similar to the series given last year, though the speakers are not the same. The object is to bring before the divinity students gentlemen connected with the university, who are not teachers in that department. The speakers are: The Rev. Phillips Brooks and the Rev. J. Fev. J. F. Clarke of the board of overseers, Professor William James of the philosophical department, Professor N. S. Shaler of the scientitic...
...term averages and the annual bowl-fight that was immediately to follow. The sophomores had on the grounds a ponderous wooden bowl about 2 1-2 feet in diameter and fully 2 inches thick, strongly dovetailed to resist the most powerful efforts of the freshmen to break it. The object of the sophomores in this annual fight is to put the last honor man of the freshman class into the bowl, while the freshmen fight to get their last honor man off the field and then to break the bowl. So when Prof. Jackson, secretary of the college faculty, announced...
...present have always expressed much interest in the lectures. This is an important subject for men to be informed upon, and one too often neglected by hard working students. To know how we are made and what we should do to keep ourselves in good health should be the object of everyone. It is for this purpose that these lectures were given and they were made voluntary so that every man could have this chance if they desired. It is to be hoped that this course will not be omitted this year. Dr. James has returned from Europe...