Word: objections
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...transition, and as a good many of the most important traditions in our college life have been interrupted during the last few years, I wish, in behalf of those who are at Harvard for the first time, to say a few words with reference to the founding and the object of the expositions given at Harvard each season by Mr. Arthur Whiting and assisting artists...
This course was instituted twelve years ago by several influential Harvard alumni, notably Charles O. Brewster '76, and the Harvard Department of Music--the object being to provide perfectly free opportunity for all students in the University to begin an acquaintanceship, at any rate, with standard works of classic and modern musical literature. The feeling was that no one should claim to be a cultivated man of letters unless his general knowledge of music was somewhat on a par with that which is reasonably taken for granted by the world in such other arts as poetry, prose, painting, and architecture...
...some time there has been widespread discussion concerning the athletic policy of the University. Radical changes have recently taken place at Yale. The object which seems to be in view is to make organized athletics an institution for the many...
...college years are not the time to form highly trained specialists; that comes later; the main object of the undergraduate should be to acquire habits of intellectual application, of clear and accurate thought, and of lucid expression...
...What should the college seek to accomplish? Should it train the individual in special attainment or should it cultivate that elasticity of mind and broadness of outlook which distinguish the student from the artisan? In President Lowell's understanding, the development of the mind as a whole is its object, a mind sympathetic and without prejudice, which from its long practice in jumping intellectual hurdles will better adjust itself to the changing needs of the time and more easily follow the path of truth through the labyrinth of ignorance and bewilderment. The mind is to be trained to follow things...