Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Society, the Philosophical Club and numerous others are examples of this phase of work. The latest addition to the number is the Harvard International Law Club. Its founders intend to make it a permanent institution at Harvard. It has a distinct field to cover; with so clearly defined an object the new club can hardly fail to succeed...
...White, Norton, Goodwin and others connected with the University. The report is submitted by Dr. Charles Waldstein Ph. D., Litt. D., L. H. D., permanent director, and Professor S. Stanhope Orris, Ph. D., L. H. D., annual director, and gives as encouraging an outlook as could be expected. The object of the school is to furnish an opportunity to study Classical Literature, Art, and Antiquities in Athens, under suitable guidance, to graduates of American colleges and to other qualified students; to prosecute and to aid original research in these subjects; and to cooperate with the Archaeological Institute of America...
This last was certainly the object Mr. Weld had in view when he gave the boat house. For some time there had been a general feeling among many of Harvard's well-wishers that but a small per cent of Harvard students were taking active part in outdoor sports. It was this feeling which President Ellot had in mind when he said in his Annual Report-"the main object of intercollegiate races and competitive contests is to increase the number of students who habitually take part in manly sports." It was, we repeat, to bring about this broader and better...
...CRIMSON a few days ago of the possibility of a gift from the Fayerweather estate, we gave a list of what seemed to us the University's most pressing needs. One of the most prominent of these was that of a new library reading-room. In behalf of this object we wish to say a word thus early to the authorities who will dispose of the bequest just announced. To no other purpose could the money be so advantageously given. Moreover, it was Mr. Conant's wish, we understand, that a building bearing his name be put up with this...
...Professor Dwight the supreme aim of the Law School, hitherto, has been to fit students for the actual work of law practice. The newer policy, however, condemns this ambition as inadequate, and seeks to expand and remodel the plan of instruction. The idea is to carry out the old object of fitting students to be practicing lawyers, and in addition the advocates of this new plan would have taught at the Law School the theory of law in its highest ranges, as is done in the finest universities of Europe. This expansion and extension of instruction is directly in accord...