Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Folk-Lore Society last evening the following officers were elected: President, H. H. Kidder '97; vice-president, M. L. Fernald '97; secretary and treasurer, R. B. Dixon '97. The object of the society is the collection and diffusion of folk-lore. This year two very successful and well attended lectures were given under its auspices by noted archaeologists...
...gain physical or mental education; but few realize that the spiritual life should be developed by scientific methods. Dogma has a bad sound to many; but it is simply the church expressing what she means by her worship. No body of persons who have no way of telling their object, can have so strong a form of corporate life as a body whose belief is fully stated...
...unique features of the Law School is the student law clubs or courts, whose object is to give their members practice in arguing points of law as they will some day have to argue them in actual courts of law. There are now about a dozen of these clubs which meet every week and by this means about a hundred members of each class get actual practice in legal arguing. The oldest club is the Pow Wow, which was founded in 1870 by eight first year students, among whom are Professor J. B. Ames of the Law School, Austen...
...report of the Museum explorations is compiled from the field notes of John G. Owens, Marshall H. Saville and George Byron Gordon, who at different times have been in charge of the explorations. In this first number the object is simply to give a general account of the ruins, the plan being to publish a series of memoirs on special topics relating to them...
...object of the caucus is to determine what the sentiment of the Republicans is regarding the choice for president...