Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from New York and New England have been earnestly engaged in an undertaking which bids fair to result in one of the most important steps in advance for Harvard athletics which has been made in years. It is proposed to form a strongly organized Graduate Athletic Association. The object of the association will be to gather into an authoritative, active body, the full strength of graduate experience and energy, to give assistance and advice to the undergraduates. Its function, however, will be purely that of an advisory body to act in unison with the coaches and captains...
...Police Force as an Object Lesson in Applied Civics. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt...
...running expenses of the club are necessarily large and as its work expands will inevitably increase fully as fast as will the receipts from member-ship dues. Any addition to the dues exacted from each member is certainly to be avoided if possible. The chief object of the club is to induce the largest possible number of men to learn to row, and no small part of the success already attained is due to the very moderate charges. Everyone who has used the club knows that the he gets a most liberal return for his money, and this fact acts...
...object of the undertaking is to make this memorial the centre not merely of intellectual instruction, but of general hospitable influences. And now that the work is so far advanced it is earnestly hoped that the project will be furthered to the utmost by the co-operation of the students. It has been suggested that a bust of Phillips Brooks would aid greatly in impressing on the minds of visitors the original object of the building and in bringing to their memory his heart-felt sympathy and depth of interest in every branch of student life...
...stars taken at the Harvard College Observatory as part of the Henry Draper Memorial differ in two respects from those ordinarily taken elsewhere. Instead of using a spectroscope with a slit, in which but one star is photographed at a time, large prism is placed over the object glass of the telescope and thus spectra of all the bright stars in the field of view are obtained. The number of stars photographed simultaneously is still further increased by substituting for the object glass a portrait lens like that used by photographers, only larger. The field of view is in this...