Word: objections
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...main object of the book is to put on record in some form or other every event worthy of remembrance that has taken place during the College course of the present Senior Class. This is done very well, considering that it is the first attempt, and as a Class history it is something unique and well worth while...
When the Harvard Memorial Society was founded in 1895, its chosen object was "to perpetuate a knowledge of the history of our University, and to commemorate the great men who have been teachers and students here." One of the fittest ways to do this seemed to be by the annual services which had been held in Sanders Theatre on Memorial Day since 1892. Originally it had been intended that the exercises should be under the auspices of each graduating class; but the difficulty of establishing a tradition made it advisable to put them in the charge of a permanent organization...
...maker in the bank. They represent this check to be practically equivalent to a promissory note. Many of the college men are led into this trap and do not consider the construction which that lender may put upon this act if he is given the opportunity. The object of the lender is to place the student in a position in which he will appear to be amenable to the provisions of Chapter 203 of the Public Statutes of Massachusetts which provide in $59 that "Whoever designedly, by a false pretence, or by a privy or false token, and with intent...
President Eliot has accepted an invitation to serve on the Board of Vice-Presidents of the Washington Manor Association, the object of which is to preserve. "Harewood," a house three miles from Charlestown, W. Va., built by General Washington in 1752-56 and occupied by his brother, Colonel Samuel Washington, from 1756 to 1781. James and Dolly Madison were married in that house, and there King Louis Philippe of France spent his exile...
...meeting will be held this afternoon at the B. A. A. of representatives of the different college boat clubs, and other amateur organizations, interested in rowing, for the purpose of organizing a new amateur rowing association. As before stated, the object of this association is to bring together crews and scullers from the prominent college rowing clubs of the country, and from other rowing clubs maintaining a good amateur standing...