Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only presumable object of such a subsidy would be (a) to restore by temporary encouragement the prosperity of American shipping. (b) to build up a prosperous trade with South and Central America; (c) to create a class of vessels available for war purposes-Majority report of Joint Select Committee of Congress on American shipping, House reports. 2n session, 47th Congress, vol. 1; Proceedings of the Pan-American Congress; Lalor's Encyclopaedia...
...psychological sides considering memory as a "double faced unity." The system taught here does not very greatly from all the others "invented" or discovered of late years. It is a very elaborate system of forcing the mind to follow numerous links in a chain of suggestions till the final object-the thing to be remembered-is reached. The connection between these links is so slight sometimes as to be more amusing than impressive. To the reviewer's mind it takes a good memory to learn to remember according to the system here given. Its use seems more apparent...
...view of a livelihood it may be well said that in medicine the man who gives himself, will gain his living; the secret of success in it is that earnest devotion to its duties which makes the fee the secondary consideration, for as Dr. Holmes says "the principal object of the practice of medicine is the benefit of the patient...
...number of men from the second year Law school have organized a club to be known as the Harvard Massachusetts Law club. The object of the club is the studying and discussion of Massachusetts law. Each member is to prepare an exhaustive report on some branch of the subject and is to read abstracts from it, after which a discussion of the subject will take place. Only men who expect to practice law in Massachusetts are eligible to membership...
...been well seconded by the New York city graduates of the university, but little praise can be said for the sympathy and aid shown by instructor and undergraduate in this work. We wish earnestly to call the attention of the college to this work which has so worthy an object...