Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Captain Thorney yesterday morning took fourteen of the leading candidates to a private training table at the New Haven House. The object of this is to give the men most likely to play in the Princeton game a change of food...
Critics may object, and do object, that athletic prowess is unduly exalted, and that it involves distortion of facts to rate the best football player, or best oarsman, higher than the best scholar or debater. But the critic is not wholly right in this. There is a disposition in the college world to recognize in the highest degree anything which redounds to the credit of the college. Let a student write something which brings honor to his college, whether in science or literature, and there is no limit to the recognition he receives from his fellows. Let a football player...
...football game between ninety-eight and ninety-nine was not played yesterday, but together with the game between ninety-six and ninety-seven was postponed until Friday. The object of this change was to give the 'varsity new teams to play against in preparation for the game with Princeton. The two preliminary matches in the class series will probably be played Friday and the final match Tuesday...
...impart information to one who has ridden farther. Never was I shown more hospitality than when on this novel trip. When I started, I was unused to any kind of physical exercise to speak of, so that I could not ride fast nor long, but that was not my object. After a day or two I began to gain in flesh, and when I arrived in Cambridge, Sept. 9, I had gained 14 pounds...
...Memorial Society, having for its object the increase among Harvard men of regard for the memorials and traditions of the University, urges that the disgrace of this thieft cannot be felt too strongly...