Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are those who insist that Dr. Hamlin really cares nothing about investigating the effect of diet upon his pupils, but that his object in setting up a collegiate weighing-machine is to substitute weighing for the old-fashioned methods of examination. The weighing-machine will afford, in some respects, a fair test of the progress which the students have made in the higher studies-such as base ball and rowing-and Dr. Hamlin may intend to assign collegiate honors to the students who succeed in training themselves down to the best possible weight. There is a good deal that...
Harvard will endeavor to secure the abolition, or at least a modification, of the iron-clad rules that prevented it from playing with professional clubs or hiring a professional trainer last season, and made it an object of ridicule in the eyes of the other colleges, all of which played professional teams and had the services of professional coaches. Where the logic comes in adopt-such a course and yet retaining a professional gymnastic teacher and allowing a professional sparer to be in the gymnasium is difficult to comprehend. Yet the nine plays under professional rules and the games...
...books during the library hours. Why cannot this work be done either before the opening of the library in the morning, or after its close in the afternoon? Notices are carefully placed on the tables, stating that loud talking, or any practice disturbing to readers is forbidden. But the object of these notices must remain unaccomplished as long as the authorities reserve the right to make as much noise as they please in changing the position of the books, taking away old ones and bringing new. This sort of thing went on for upwards of half an hour...
Many persons object to the time and effort given to athletics by college students. The town of Sharon had a winter school where for several years the big boys had it all their own way, thrashing and turning out of doors the alleged masters, until the committee engaged John Sykes, an under-sized graduate of Harvard, but over-sized in muscle and energy far beyond what his appearance indicated. He opened school with a conciliatory address, asking the co-operation of the pupils, but ending with a firm expression of his intentions and expectations. Very soon after which Bill Gates...
...they soon obtained from the state privileges and honorable rights, especially that of an independent jurisdiction, and the right of granting academic degrees. The students of that time were mostly men of mature years, who frequented the university more immediately for their own instruction, and without any direct practical object; but younger men soon began to be sent who, for the most part, were placed under the superintendence of the older members. The separate universities split again into closer economic unions, under the name of "Nations," "Bursaries," "Colleges," whose older members, the seniors, governed the common affairs of each such...