Word: objections
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual Northfield Conference, hold at East Northfield, in Northern Massachusetts, aims to create in every man who attends a sound mind in a sound body. With this object in view, it provides for mental, spiritual and bodily exercise. One of the really great endowments that Northfield hands down lies in the strong friendships that are formed there. For men of common interest in the fundamental things of life come together in a delightfully informal manner and find in each other characteristics that make for strong and permanent friendship. Perhaps the strongest impression one receives, however, is that life must...
...most pressing problems of municipal reform. Efficient Americans see in the service of corporations an opportunity to rise, while they see in municipal government only a machine that has long since been proved to be absolutely useless. To obtain better machinery in municipal government, then, is an object to be desired. This end would be furthered by an increase in state supervision over and in popular control of our city governments. State supervision has enormously increased in recent years, practically all the taxing powers of the city having been taken away, and lodged in the hands of the state legislature...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize Poem, "New England", is entitled to hearty praise; the cheery, manly tone, the felicitous choice of descriptive terms, and the musical swing of the lines give it permanent value. "The Sound of the Sea" is a fairly successful experiment in rimed hexameters; one may object to the quasi-rimes "heaven" and "even," "fonder" and "wonder," as well as to the expression "memory of remembered faces"; but the verses are in general melodious, and the dreamy sadness of tone reflects one side of the effect of the sea-sounds. The other poetical pieces are creditable in thought...
...Pole-vault competition, which was Postponed on Friday on account of rain, will be held in the Stadium this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The object of the contest is to pick men to go to Philadelphia to compete in the intercollegiate games Friday and Saturday...
...this evening, the University owes a debt of gratitude,--to Professor Spalding for his disinterested efforts in promoting the scheme, to the alumni whose generous contributions made the experiment possible, and to Mr. Whiting who appealed to record-breaking audiences and changed an experiment into an undisputed success: The object for which the series was instituted has been more than attained and many men have put in a pleasant evening and gained at the same time an intelligent appreciation of music, not in its lighter form, but in the full "dignity of the art." Judging by the size...