Word: objective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understood that the object of the new provision in regard to physicians' certificates has been established in order to make students who are compelled to be absent on account of illness give their excuse in their own authority and not base their assertion on a doctor's certificate...
...object of this school is to train students who wish to fit themselves for geological work in the field, and to aid teachers in acquiring methods of instruction in the elements of geology. It will be conducted by the instructors in geology at Harvard College...
...special object of the school is to teach students to observe, the instruction will be necessarily limited in range and will be directed chiefly to the explanation of problems met in the field. Advanced knowledge of geology will not be required, but only teachers, graduates of colleges or persons of maturity and some training can be admitted. Only men can be accepted as students. Each student should have a satchel, note-book, hammer and compass. There will be opportunities to collect rocks and fossils...
...Committee,S. M. MACVANE."The object of the committee is to make way with as many as possible of the evils which the present Tabular View contains. Students will be glad of this opportunity to speak with the probability of obtaining a change for the better in the grouping of courses...
...their pains in hearing an amateur concert that showed no traces of those dreadful evils which are so apt to be brought into prominence in such performances. The work of pushing the fund in aid of the School at Athens has been begun with energy. So worthy an object will not need to go begging...