Word: objective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...elective pamphlet for 1887-88, is in course of composition, Its issue may be expected somewhere within one or three weeks according as the faculty accept or object to the provis-visional pamphlet to be presented to them at to-day's meeting. In making an arrangement like this for the whole college year, it is very desirable that all who are affected by its provisions should state their wishes or objections before it is too late. Especially now when the tendency of the students selection of studies is such an important factor in the composition or our elective pamphlet...
...Bache fund, with such promising results. In order to facilitate a more careful study of the spectra of the brightest stars, Mrs. Draper has loaned to the Observatory the eleven-inch photographic telescope employed by her husband, and it has been mounted with two prisms in front of the object-glass, one of which has a clear aperture of eleven inches square and an angle of nearly fifteen degrees, forming thus the most powerful equipment for stellar spectroscopy in existence...
...monthly periodical, published by members of the Law School, has now been added to the already long list of our college publications. The object of the "Harvard Law Review" is to "set forth the work done in the Law School, to furnish news of interest to those who have studied law in Cambridge, and to give, if possible, to all who are interested in the subject of legal education, some idea of what is done under the Harvard system of instruction." This intention has been admirably carried out in the first number containing many interesting and noteworthy points which cannot...
...Griffin opened the argument for the affirmative. The first object of the Republican party, said he, is to carry the national elections in 1888, and this can be done with the greatest certainty by nominating James G. Blaine for President. (Applause.) The speaker then traced the honorable course of Mr. Blaine in the Maine legislature during the war, and his career afterwards in the House of Representatives where he was three times elected speaker. He was prominently connected with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. His popularity with the Republican party was evinced...
...days since to discuss the subject of forming a social athletic club. Most of the members of university teams were present and it was decided to form a club, which should be composed entirely of the members, past and present, of university teams, and should have for its object the bringing together of athletic men on a social basis for the better improvement and discussion of college athletics whether intercollegiate or not. Officers were chosen as follows: Franklin Remington, president; W. A. Brooks, vice-president; A. P. Butler, secretary, and A. F. Holden, treasurer. These officers with Messrs. Woodman...