Word: objective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...knocks for admission with the spirit of subdmission and humility. Heaven is ready at all times to aid the man who is searching for the light, and there is nothing which will bring two persons together sooner and bind them firmer than having this one object in common. At the close of the address the choir sang the "King of Love My Shepherd Is," by Shelley...
...Magazine Committee, of which I am chairman, will be grateful for any assistance you may render them, by notice of the "Century" article in your columns, in securing their object...
...last years freshman nine - and forty-five dollars is not enough by half. It is to be hoped that the sophomore class will realize more fully the importance of this move that has been made, and contribute each one his mite toward the accomplishment of such a worthy object. As stated before, a very small contribution from each member of eighty-nine will make up a sum sufficient to purchase for the nine, handsome memorials of the services they rendered. It will be remembered that the cups presented to last year's freshman crew were purchased from the surplus money...
Meetings are held every two weeks on Thursday evenings. At these evenings, a paper is read, followed by discussion and by other informal exercises. The object of the club is the discussion of German life and literature. The officers of the Verein are: President, Dr. Kuno Francke; vice-president, F. W. Taussig; secretary, and treasurer, W. G. Thompson; executive committee, Dr. Francke. (ex-offieio), W. T. Talbot, E. R. Thayer...
...kind-hearted man can possibly have any objection to having the youth of Cambridge disport themselves on the gently sloping hill that leads down from President Eliot's house to the Library, when the hard frozen snow invites to sleds and toboggaus. But we do object to having the studious part of the college community exposed to the constant risk of being taken off their feet by the runners of the little coasters as they come flying down the slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this...