Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...want of it, and then prefer a doctor's remedies to Nature's By the present system of college athletics these requisites are met, if not perfectly, at least as well as it is possible for them to be met. They furnish a mental stimulus. They set up an object to be striven for and an ideal of strength or skill. The object is honor-honor of no great worth, perhaps, but still honor to the student mind. To secure a victory in any sport, good brains in the players contribute quite as much as good muscles. In fact...
...object of the school, which corresponds to the English school of Rugby, is to fit its forty or fifty students, who are all the way from 15 to 19 years old, for the German universities. Any student who has received a sufficiently good certificate here may enter a university without further examination...
...words, that we at Harvard should take most emphatic exception. We deny the statement that our colleges should be influenced in any but a negative direction by the popular opinion which assails them. This doctrine may do very well for the "fresh-water" and second-rate colleges, whose only object is to cause a steady stream of gold dollars to flow into the pockets of their managers, but it will not do for a college like Harvard, which aspires to be the first university in the land. The duty of a true university is not to follow the bent...
...than once marked by inconsistency and disingenuousness. At the time we based our criticism of this committee on two points; firstly, on the report which appeared in various college papers, notably the Yale News, and thence widely copied, that a member of this committee had avowed that the chief object of the prohibition of the Harvard eleven from playing its foot-ball game with the Yale eleven last fall had been to draw attention to the condition of the game and provoke discussion; and that the purpose proclaimed by the committee at the time had been only secondary to their...
...much more than Mr. Hooper, the treasurer, can obtain from any ordinary investment, in fact twice as much. If the college is unable to build at present let them urge some of Harvard's numerous friends and well wishers to devote their spare money to such a worthy object...