Word: objections
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...original plan was to have a preliminary meet between teams from Cornell, Columbia, and Technology and one between teams from Princeton, Annapolis, and Pennsylvania, with the object of eliminating one team from each group, leaving four teams, which, with the two remaining from the Harvard-Yale-Bowdoin preliminaries would leave six teams to compete in the finals. But since Technology and Princeton have failed to enter, the last two preliminaries have been rendered unnecessary...
...first meeting of the University Flying Corps will be held in Lower Massachusetts this evening at 6.45 o'clock. Frazier Curtis '98 will speak on the object and plans of the Flying Corps, and H. H. Metcalf '17 will outline the under taking from an undergraduate point of view. W. H. Meeker '17 will preside. The meeting will be held at 6.45 in order not to interfere with either the regimental lecture or the Non-Commissioned Officers' School...
...primary object of the Corps is to start a training school for military aviators. As the best school of this sort is maintained by the French Army at Pau, it is planned to model this one directly along those lines...
...cannot see how an undergraduate can enjoy Virgil without learning to appreciate the language, the rhythm, the imagination, the patriotic fervor, and the human characteristics of the great poet, whose vitality cannot be extinguished even by the wave of our modernism. We must not make Tacitus merely an object of linguistic or literary or historical study to a man who reads him for the first and, probably, for the last time, simply because Tacitus is great in all these fields and to omit one of them is to belittle the author. After all, even if scrambled eggs do not suit...
...current issue, although the art of writing editorials has yet to be acquired with further experience of the joys of editorship. The first one is righteously indignant with the Boston American's attack on President Lowell, but its grammar is defective, and it fails to accomplish its object, for like the paper mentioned it "does not argue, it states." Again, sententia, if the editors really insist on using a Latin word where an English one does better, is a word of the first deciension (sententia, ae, like mensa), and consequently it is not only hard on the President...