Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game, and naturally attempts to lay the whole blame upon our side. It says : "They now propose to play '87 at Providence on the Saturday after Thanks-giving, which will deprive many who expect to go home at that time of the pleasure of witnessing the game. They object to playing at Hartford on the ground that Providence is more nearly equi-distant from Yale and Harvard. This objection to Hartford seems rather unbecoming when it is remembered that Providence is over three-quarters of an hour nearer Boston than New Haven, and that for the last two years Yale...
EDITORS OF HERALD-CRIMSON : It is a Yankee characteristic to be inquiring into the why and wherefore of everything. The Yankee students as well as others using the North entrance of Memorial are yet unable to account for the object of the lamp above the door-way. Every evening thus far they have patiently stumbled over the steps in the darkness; but when there seems to be a convenient means of light near by unused, longer patience ceases to be a virtue. With trifling trouble the lamp could be lighted every evening, and thus give great satisfaction to the students...
...sense mere forms. The same rules may be seen in base-ball. No one would say that base-ball was brutal because there are rules that forbid intentionally knocking a man down or intentionally striking him. Surely the latter rule indirectly implies more brutality than the ones so much objected to by the committee. It seems to us that the committee objects more to the letter of the rules, the possibilities they suggest, than to their spirit. But after all we object most strenuously to the time they have chosen for their action. It is too late after all arrangements...
...credit four hundred dollars. The estimated expenses between that date and the close of the fiscal year are nine hundred dollars. The society must therefore earn five hundred dollars in this period. Every effort will be made by the superintendent and the directors for the accomplishment of this object, and it is hoped every effort will be made by the members. As one means of increasing the revenue of the society, the above resolution was passed. It is the belief of the superintendent and directors that under it a considerable increase in the membership may be made to take place...
...University of California has organized a Longfellow Memorial Association. The prominent object of the Association is to "aid in the perpetuation of the name and the fame of Longfellow," and also "to cultivate a close acquaintance with Bryant, Tennyson, Wordsworth, and the other great names of this century...