Word: objective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Connecticut men in college held a meeting on Tuesday evening and organized themselves into a Connecticut Club. The Club will be strictly social but the main object will be to promote the interests of Harvard in the Connecticut Preparatory Schools. The membership will at first be small, as there are only nineteen men from Connecticut in the University, but many new men will enter with '92 who will be eligible to membership. The officers for the coming year will be H. B. Gibson, '88, president; A. E. Beckwith, 91, secretary and treasurer; F. B's. Williams, '88, G. H. Black...
...sudden shock explodes the bomb immediately, and the connon is destroyed. But by the use of compressed air in a long tube, thus imparting the velocity gradually, a 1000-pound bomb can be fired two miles without danger to the cannoneer, but with most disastrous effects on the object aimed at. The common notion that force is needed to maintain motion is erroneous; force is only needed to overcome resistance. Without opposition motion would continue forever after being once started. The planets continue to move only because no resistance is offered, otherwise they would have become stationary long...
...writing the above I am actuated by no feeling of vindictiveness. My object in writing is to call attention to an evil which has no right to exist; to condemn a policy which I know is impairing the usefulness of a good society...
...thirteen thousand. This is not remarkable, as the profession of literature is of recent origin, and only the vast extension of printing in the last forty years has rendered it possible. Every man must choose his occupation with reference to his own natural gifts. If wealth is the only object of life, not literature but all the professions must be ruled out. Enormous gains can only be hoped for in commerce. The most celebrated lawyers seldom have an income of over $50,000, and the most famous clergymen and physicians rarely receive more than $20,000 annually. The thing...
...CLUB SWINGING.- It has been thought better to have the club swinging at the last meeting instead of at the second. If any who intend to enter this event object to the change they will please let me know before Thursday evening, when the entries for it will close if no objections are received...