Word: objective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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During the last week of October there will be the usual fall handicap games, and if there are enough entries from the new men, there will probably be Freshman scratch games also, held during the same week. The object of these games is more to develop new material than to give training to former members of the team, so that all men, whether they have ever taken part in track athletics or not are urged to come out. There are now between sixty and seventy men in training, and more are joining the squad daily...
...second collection is a more interesting one, both by reason of its size and of its special object. The library of Charles Schefer, a noted French editor and writer, was sold last May in Paris. It was rich in books on the history of Turkey and on the Eastern question, a subject in which M. Schefer was an acknowledged authority. Through the kindness of Mr. J. Randolph Coolidge, the Library was able to bid at the sale and purchased 529 volumes. These make a notable beginning of a collection on the Eastern question, which Mr. Lane intends to make...
Last. January, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff of New York, offered the sum of $25,000 toward the erection of a Semitic Building at Harvard provided an equal sum from other sources could be secured by July 1 last. The object of this offer was to provide a suitable home for the Semitic Museum, the departmental library, and the Semitic instruction. At present the museum collections are in the Peabody Museum, the library in Sever Hall, and the instruction divided between several buildings, In asking for contributions toward the enterprise, the curator of the Semitic Museum set forth its many advantages...
...committee has been in communication with a large number of members of the Association in various parts of the country, wlth the object of informing the undergraduate captains in advance, of the athletic material they may expect in the forthcoming freshman class, and with the further object of assisting the captains in bringing out promising men now in college who ought to be in athletics but may not, as yet, be know. Some valuable information has been received and will be put at the disposal of the undergraduate managers and captains...
...object of the work is to portray life at Princeton as it has been and as it now is. In the description of student life in the earlier days of the college, the writer points out the circumstances under which many of Princeton's timehonored traditions have originated and the effect they have had upon the customs of the undergraduates of today...