Word: objective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been eliminated. Compulsory chapel has been abolished, hazing has disappeared, and the elective system has done much to elevate and broaden our college life. A university club would be a valuable auxiliary in this movement. It would fill a place which no other college society can fill, since the object of other societies is to promote intercourse only between one class of students. A university club would embrace all classes. It would tend to break up fractions and cliques. It would bring together congenial men, who might not otherwise become acquainted. By the facilities which it would offer...
...ENGLAND. Its columns are eagerly perused by thousands of readers; and its circulation is constantly increasing. It is one of the features of New England, bright, fearless and independent, and is sold everywhere; as an advertising medium the HERALD is second to none, and advertisers will attain their object more speedily and more efficiently in its columns than in those of any other Boston paper...
...sufficient to answer the second - would go far toward setting student publications on a surer basis. The answer, it seems to us, would be that college papers are a receptacle for the literary attempts of the students. Expression of student-opinion and pleasure to the student-readers are objects which fall in under this wider object. For the former is but the expression of a real kind of literary attempt, and is, as we know, the motive which gave life to our old "Advocate," and the latter is a necessary condition to the success of a paper. From this answer...
...ENGLAND. Its columns are eagerly perused by thousands of readers and its circulation is constantly increasing. It is one of the features of New England, bright, fearless and independent, and is sold everywhere; as an advertising medium the HERALD is second to none, and advertisers will attain their object more speedily and more efficiently in its columns than in those of any other Boston paper...
...O.K.The formation of the O. K. Society was the result of a reaction unfavorable to Greek-letter societies. It was established by the class of '59, among whom Greek-letter societies had fallen into great disrepute. The object of the society is the pursuit of literary and social enjoyment. The members are taken from the senior class, and the membership is limited to sixteen. The motto of the society is "Ars celare artem." The society has no rooms of its own, but meets in the rooms of the various members. In these meetings it has been customary to keep...