Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sargent's article on athletics tends to discourage men of unsymmetric form from athletics; but Mr. Dole says that no particular heed should be paid to whether your form is perfect or not. You want to make it so if it is not. Begin with this object, and keep on, and you will in time find yourself an athlete, big, brawny and strong...
About forty Andover men met last evening in the rooms of Mr. J. W. Lund, '90, to consider the formation of a Phillips Andover club. After the object of the meeting had been formally stated, a short time was devoted to an informal discussion of the advantages of the club; J. H. Ropes, '89, J. W. Lund, '90 and other prominent graduates of the academy took part in this discussion. It was at once evident that the sentiment of all present was enthusiastically in favor of the formation of such a club and a motion that the meeting resolve itself...
...club will be to render it pleasanter for Andover men entering Harvard; to this end monthly meetings will be held throughout the year, and the Harvard-Andover dinner which was held for the first time last October will be made an annual event. It will also be the object of the club to increase the size of the Andover delegation coming to Harvard by endeavoring to promote a better understanding between the preparatory school and the University...
...this means an instant comparison can be secured between the pole star, as a standard, and the object of investigation, which is to be classified. The polar telescope has an aperture of five inches and a focal length of about seven feet...
...change its shape from expansion or flexure. The telescopic tube is jointed so as to be air-tight throughout and at the eye-piece. Its material is steel plate one thirty-second inch thick. The temperature of the room does not effect its interior and no fogging of the object glass has occurred during cold nights...