Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appeal made by the treasurer of the Boat Club in another column ought to meet with such prompt response as to make further appeals for the same object unnecessary. The college should at all events show that it is unwilling to slight the needs of a victorious crew. We hope that the freshmen in particular will see fit to contribute largely. Fewer organizations are dependent for financial support on them than on any other class, and they should show their interest in the success of Harvard's athletics in a substantial...
...Sargent in a recent lecture, differed in that the former had three ends to attain - a perfect mind in point of education, a perfect working condition of the organs of the body, and especially a perfect body in the point of beauty and art - while the latter's sole object was to fit the body to endure the hardships of war. Thus among the Greeks we find the most perfectly and beautifully developed athletes. At the fall of Rome, and with the rise of Christianity, there was a change in the former ideas of physical training. Whereas the Greeks...
...with the act passed in this year that Mr. Taussig began. The act of 1857 had so far reduced duties in general that temporary loans had to be made, and this fact gave rise to the preparation of the Morrill bill in 1861. The object of the bill was to cause duties to return to what they were in 1846, and it was intended to be protective. Its distinguishing feature was the substitution of specific for ad valorem duties. The chief changes in the taxation were upon wool and pig iron. For the first time in the history of tariff...
This is but a brief summary of the contents of a room whose every nook discloses some rare and antique object. To give but a list of what it contains would fill a volume...
...that form of religious opinion, "whose bulwarks are the Trinity on one side and hell on the other," is held by Vassar students to be their one great grievance in the matter of "religious discipline." Daily chapel is not, on the whole, regarded as an infliction. Vassar does not object to the quantity of her religious exercises. She does protest against forced religious instruction, not, we admit in the interests of a denomination, but certainly of a school...