Word: objective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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THIS famous society was formed a year since, at the suggestion of several gentlemen prominent in science and literature. Its object is the discussion of the world in general and the universe in particular. At these meetings from time to time many valuable papers have been read, and possibly on some future occasion they may be perpetrated in print. But it is with the opening meeting of this famous society that we are at present concerned...
...first visited a very neat little piece [obscure, piece of what?] with whom I passed a delightful evening [very vague]; but towards the end of our chat I became painfully aware that I had not accomplished my object, so I turned the conversation from morning prayers to early marriages. My young friend seemed to think I was meditating something of the sort [what sort?] and to consider it a huge joke [why?], for she only called me a silly boy as she bade me a "touching" [ambiguous] good...
...special subjects, for the Forensics of the Junior and Senior years. That this is regarded as a privilege is proved by the large proportion of "honor men" who take advantage of this permission and write one or two Theses in place of the four required Forensics. Now the avowed object of Forensic writing is to give facility and force in the arrangement of an argument or proof. If this is the only object, why need the additional work of looking up and studying a subject, which is arbitrarily given out by the instructor, be added to that which the student...
...think that the Union is distinctly to be congratulated in having decided not to undertake a legislative branch. The object of the Union is to encourage debate on topics of general interest, not to countenance the quibbling and meaningless discussions into which a legislative branch would inevitably degenerate; besides, even the importance of a knowledge of parliamentary procedure, about which so much was said on Thursday evening, can be of little value to most of us. All else that was claimed for the legislative branch can legitimately be secured in the Union as it is; and it would have been...
REGRETTEST thou the days when each object of nature...