Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sparring in the last athletic meeting was open to no objection except from those who object to having any sparring whatever at the meetings. The contestants were cautioned not to indulge in much hard hitting, and the result showed that no one lost by this restraint. The hissing by some of the decision given by gentlemen who have been kind enough to act as judges in our sports, was as ungentlemanly as it was uncalled for, and we were glad to see that the majority of the audience showed their condemnation of it by their applause...
...these assumptions was taken up and an analysis of this assumption was sketched. We assume in all discussions about the world that there is a difference between the truth of a statement and its falsity. But a statement is true by reason of its agreement with its object, and here arises a difficulty...
...object of my statement is just what I have in mind as my object; otherwise my statement means nothing at all. But if the object of my statement is what I have in mind, how can my statement fail to agree with this object? i. e., how can my statement be false? That our statements are not all true implies, then, that they can have objects beyond themselves with which they can fail to agree. But how can an object that is wholly out of my thought be actually the object concerning which I am making statements? This difficulty once...
...distance in putting the shot is measured by a line at right angles to the starting line, and not in a direct line from the place where the contestant stands to the place where the shot falls. The object of this is to compel the contestants to throw the shot straight, as otherwise they do not get the full benefit of their throw...
...appreciated by the audiences at our athletic meetings. For the last few years, at least, the audiences at the meetings seem to have desired the boxer to confine himself to self-defence and at most only to hit his opponent when he approached dangerously near. Now, we object as much as any to unnecessary "slugging," but our observation at the last few winter meetings has been that much of the best and most legitimate sparring has been hissed. A sparring match consists in something more than "squaring off" and occasionally exchanging a blow, and if the spectators insist in hissing...