Word: objections
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...poetry requirement in advanced Latin is, and has been for years, not Vergil at sight but the translation at sight of Latin verse, and not merely of Vergil. The practical limitation of this requirement to Vergil is obviously absurd, and defeats its own object,--that is, the testing a candidate's power to deal with a new piece of Latin. The time has come when it is the duty of the Latin examiner to rise to the real Harvard requirement. The whole field of Latin verse is open to him, from which to choose his sight passages. This applies...
...make the minor sports self supporting is practically the same as continuing the need of undergraduate subscriptions. The object of college athletics is to help along the physical development of the students. The minor sports certainly offer such an opportunity to a great number of men. The gross expenses for the cricket club, lacrosse team, hockey club, and fencing team, for 1901-1902 (I take this year as it is the only one for which I have figures) were $1,331.67. Tennis yields a surplus. If now $1,500 is added as expense for basketball and increases in the expenses...
Yearly, said Mr. Brooks, social questions are assuming a more prominent part in American politics, and foremost of these is the struggle between the various trades unions and employers' organizations or citizens' alliances. These employers' organizations have a two-fold object: the destruction of the trades unions and the establishment of the open shop which admits union and non-union men alike. It is questionable, however, whether the open shop is beneficial to the working classes. It results in the introduction of cheap foreign labor, and the lowering of wages. The closed shop, however, is distasteful to the public, Since...
...first regular meeting of the Ethical Society the following officers were elected: president, M. R. Cohen 1G.; vice-president, D. Pottinger '06; secretary-treasurer, B. Beckhard '07; member of the executive committee. J. A. Harley '06. A constitution was adopted, embodying the object of the society,--to promote an earnest interest in problems of practical ethics and to encourage effort toward the highest ideals in personal, political, and social life...
...course has for its object the consideration of civic problems with special reference to social settlements. All who desire to take the course should send their names at once to R. S. Wallace, Phillips Brooks House...