Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reported that the Yale Gymnasium Association has sent letters to the leading colleges in the east, asking for their cooperation in forming an intercollegiate gymnastic association. The object will be the promotion of general gymnastics and indoor contests...
...Natural Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania is preparing to make an expedition to Labrador. Mr. Hite, who is connected with the Zoological Department of the university, and who was naturalist on the Peary Relief Expedition is the leader, and Dr. Wetheril is second in command. The main object of the expedition is to see and locate the Grand Falls of Labrador, which are said to be the largest in the world, and which only four white men are known to have visited. Another object of the trip is to gather collections of the fauna and flora of Labrador, about...
...object shall be to perpetuate the name and influence of Mr. Bolles and to carry on that work in which he was most interested, the help of needy students. Such help shall be given to students of the University on the following conditions...
...Harvard Camera Club was hardly more than a name. Its work for the University in connection with the exhibit at Chicago and these lantern slides exhibitions are proof enough of the increased efficiency of the club. Energy of this kind, where men are working for a definite and worthy object, is heartily to be encouraged...
What makes an object picturesque, he said, is the first question to be solved, and it is a decidedly hard question to answer. Beauty is that quality which is constituted in rich, easy flowing lines,- the outline of the human figure, for example; but the picturesque is that subtle quality which results from nature's perfecting the crude attempts of man to produce beauty...