Word: objective
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...eagerness with which the tickets to the tree are sought shows that in reality our friends do not by any means object to seeing us act as boys, even though in theory they are compelled to blush for us, and may declare the frolic to be disgraceful...
...term, we call savoir faire. It is but reasonable to suppose that the men who possess these characteristics to the most marked degree, and who are therefore best fitted to fill the offices for which these characteristics are required, will, as a rule, be members of the societies whose object is to promote these very characteristics. It is but reasonable to suppose that a limited body of literary men, who have been gathered together at short intervals for a considerable time, will be able to nominate the literary representatives of a class with more accuracy than will the greater number...
Whether this popular hatred of anything which savors of oligarchy is or is not desirable depends upon the object of the class elections. If this object is to elect the men who may at the moment chance to be most popular or most widely known among their classmates, the purely democratic elections which we have this season witnessed attain it with comparative certainty. If, on the other hand, the object is to elect to each office the person best calculated to fill it with credit, it is by no means so certain that democracy should be the leading characteristic...
...circular sent out by the Art Club and printed in another column needs but little explanation. Nothing has been done of late years by undergraduates that will add so much to the permanent advantages of the University. The object of the club is to secure a collection of ancient works of art, which will be loaned to the University on the one condition that members of the club and others can always have access to it. The melancholy fate of the Gray engravings has made such a proviso necessary. It is the opinion of Professor Norton that the holder...
...Association, but who are extremely anxious to have the resolution rescinded, and who have come to doubt the numerical strength of their opponents, it seems but just that some statement of the reasons for their desire to withdraw should be made public; and it is with this object in view that the following has been written, where an attempt is made to give in the simplest possible way some of the arguments for secession...