Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Whatever else new criticism may do, it tends to make the Bible live. The old testament, regarded uncritically, has been to many a pure muddle, a strange object of perplexity. The new criticism makes of the old testament a living growth,- one sees it vividly. In the study by comparative method one feels a repulsion in comparing the Bible with other sacred writings. It is a most stimulating method. The attempt to compare is most profitable to the student, to set familiar literature side by side with the Bible...
...rule shall be suspended if twenty men object...
...must raise a large sum amongst ourselves, a sum large enough to show the earnestness of our purpose, and when this is done, then we may feel at liberty to ask the graduates to give us the rest. We beg each man to consider faithfully the urgency of the object in view, and when he is asked to contribute to this reading room fund, to give all that, conscientiously, he feels he can give...
Arrangements have been made for a straight-away quarter mile match race between W. C. Downs of Harvard and W. C. Dohm of Princeton. The direct object of the race is to attempt to break the world's record of 47 3-4 secnow held by Wendell Baker '86. The place of the race is not yet determined, but it will take place either at Beacon Park or Mystic Park or some other straight-away course. Detailed arrangements will be made by the N. Y. A. C., who will offer a prize for the winner...
...Garrison said that since he had made the motion of the night before to appoint the committee, he wanted to state that his object in wording the motion as it was put was that the students should not be committed to employing detectives. That part of the business was expressly left to the discretion of the committee. This committee had decided that in their judgment this was not the proper thing to do, and feeling that in their refusal to hire detectives they might not be supported by public opinion they had decided to call a second mass-meeting...