Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...American Republican College League will hold its third annual convention at Syracuse, New York, on April 6th. The object of the league is to bring together college men into communion with the Republican party with a view to stimulating their appetite for improved citzenship, as outlined by the platforms of that party. There is no doubt that the league has contributed considerable strength to the Republican party since the plan was introduced. An effort will probably be made this year to further perfect the organization by the formation of state leagues, and thus to better systematize the work. Each college...
...light is most clearly reflected, there are those to whom it tells nothing of God's love and goodness. In another point this parable of the mirror comes very close to the truth. Light, when it has reached the mirror, does not stop, but passes on from one object to another brightening and cheering everything that it touches. So the light of God never stops, but when it is reflected into the heart of a good man it goes on helping and strengthening everything with which it comes into contact...
...first meeting of the Sociological Institute of the Princeton Theological Seminary has recently been held. The object of the society is to investigate all social problems. It is proposed to establish in Philadelphia at an early date, a Princeton House, similar in character to the Andover House of Boston...
...Phillips Exeter Club. As its name indicated, the club was composed of Exeter men at Harvard. Phillips Exeter Academy has long been known as a Harvard preparatory school. Every year she sends nearly two-thirds of her graduating class to Harvard; and for this reason the prime object of such a club here needs no explanation. Even Yale, with half as many Exeter men as Harvard, has an Exeter Club. This is manifestly an anomalous state of affairs, and steps should be taken to re-organize this club at Harvard, since, as the CRIMSON showed not long ago, there...
...appreciate the aim of their teachings. It is not only that their scholars may acquire information, but it is much more that their minds may be broadened and enabled to work independently, that their wills may be strengthened, and that their characters may be developed. The teacher's object is always to promote growth...