Word: objective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...than are missionary meetings. All in vain has the genial old Scotch president bewailed this condition of affairs. His mild admonitions, his lectures, long drawn out and frequently repeated, his pleas and threats, all alike have fallen on ears disinclined to hearken. Occasional suspensions have fallen short of the object aimed at, and even stronger discipline has held few terrors for youths bent on a good time. The students have looked upon the quiet village people as victims foreordained to suffer the whims, and freaks, and deviltries of college men. When the villagers presumed to protest and grumble, punishment fell...
...motion for a new trial for Guiteau will be filed today, and undoubtedly be denied by Judge Cox, who, it is thought, will then sentence the assassin. It is improbable that the body will be delivered to the Philadelphia Refrigerator Company, as the family object...
There was quite a stampede at lunch yesterday, the object being a sight of the divine Oscar...
...Middle State and Western State university, than it ever was before. This excellent result your zeal will further. That not only Harvard, but several other strong universities East and West, North and South, should have a truly national representation of the people of the United States, is an object which every patriot must earnestly desire, for in the common character of large bodies of students drawn from the whole country will be found a strong bond of national unity. [Applause...
...meridian photometer," with object glasses four inches in diameter, is being constructed for the observatory. Observations with the meridian circle have been made on two hundred and fifty days of the past year. Eleven papers have appeared from the observatory during the same time, and its "Annals" (13th volume) are now being published...