Word: objective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unity and good feeling which have attended the class of '83 at Harvard at all times, even in the awarding of final honors of office, is an object of remark. - [New York Post...
...leagues. Then it would be influential towards making foot-ball unpopular here, as Princeton would remain the only college able to compete with Harvard. It would, moreover, tend to intensify the unfriendly feeling already to some extent existing between Harvard and Yale, which is undesirable and not a worthy object to attain. It is surely unworthy of the two acknowledged leaders of American colleges that there should be constant bickering and unpleasantness between them. But it seems to me that the best, and, in fact, the only practicable method of doing away with the "Yaleism," or, what seems the same...
...important part of one Faculty of Arts in University College, and proximity to the British Museum, with its art collections, will also be considered as another great advantage. The very necessary condition is imposed that students applying for admission shall be required to satisfy the committee that their object is serious study; and if any student should require private tuition, the principal is empowered by the committee to make the necessary arrangements...
...usual, students made application at the railroad offices last June for reduced tickets they were told that the companies had decided to make no concessions. The facts of the case were that all roads running out of Boston (for the West, at least,) had made a combination whose object was to prevent "cut" rates. Several students took the trouble to write to New York to the railroad headquarters asking for reduced terms to clubs. By return mail they received a large bundle of hand-bills and time-cards, setting forth the merits of the various roads, but their request...
...Cambridge, popularly known as the Harvard "Annex." We summarize the chief points mentioned in these reports. The most important advance made by this institution during the past year has been the securing of a charter of incorporation from the State by its friends. In accordance with the avowed object of the society aiming at the introduction of coeducation into Harvard University the charter has been made to state the objects of the organization to be to promote "the education of women with the assistance of the instructors in Harvard University," and for this purpose it empowers the society to "employ...