Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
Many well-known people of Boston have started a movement having for its object the organization of a Boston playgoers' club. A meeting for the organization of such an institution will be held at the Twentieth Century Club, 14 Ashburton Place, Boston, on December 5th, at 4.30 p. m. Every member of the University interested in the proposed plan is invited to this meeting...
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...
...most radical branch of his denomination. He dissolved this society in 1879, and went to Europe, and on his return in 1881 formally withdrew from specific connection with any church, and devoted himself to literature in Boston. He had been a leader in the movement that has for its object the promotion of rationalist ideas in theology, and had contributed largely to various journals and reviews. In 1867 he became the first president of the Free Religious Society. He was for a time art critic for the New York Tribune...
Yale has recently won much undesirable and undue notoriety from the thoughtless remarks of a woman reformer as to its moral character, which, at least, holds its own with that of other universities. Press comments have cesured the reformer rather than the object of her wrath...