Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...library, presented by President Low, will be the central figure of the group. It will be built entirely of stone and will make a most conspicuous object on account of its height. The laboratories and lecture halls will be constructed of brick and will contrast favorably with the library...
...John Cleland and Dr. John Yule Mackay, Professors of Anatomy in the University of Glasgow and in University College, Dundee, respectively, have in press a text-book on "the Anatomy of the Human Body" for the use of students of medicine and science. The object of the authors has been to produce a work that should be accurate, comprehensive, up to date, and yet sufficiently brief for the use of students. The book has been copiously illustrated, many of the figures being from original drawings, and a liberal use of photography has been made in the preparation of the engravings...
Lectures on Literature.During the year 1895-96, Mr. Copeland will give a number of lectures on English literature, of which the subjects and the dates will be announced in the University Calendar. The chief object of these lectures is to stimulate interest in literature, and particularly to encourage critical discussion of such matters of literary consequence as may from time to time arise. A secondary object is to suggest lines of reading to such members of the University as desire some knowledge of English Literature without the minute study demanded by the regular courses of instruction...
There is a good lesson for the undergraduates of Harvard in the devoted interest with which the graduates are now giving their time and energy to a movement whose principal object is to make the life of those now resident in the University pleasanter, stronger and more united. Such service can be prompted only by an intense realization of what the University has done for them in their undergraduate days and a grateful desire to do what they can to make Harvard mean as much and more to their successors. A committee appointed from their number have made a careful...
Until modern times, physical force and intimidation was the only known method of restraining those who prove unable to restrain themselves. Now, however, the purpose of punishmen is more justly to inculcate self-control, the rule of moral force. With this object inview, of calming stubbornness, and appealing to prisoners through hope rather than fear, the Elmira reformatory system has been introduced and bids fair to become a success, so far as may be expected of any remedy for the disease of crime. At Elmira every effort is made to find the weak points of each prisoner and to strengthen...