Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...minor one is that they do not insist as strongly as we do that the back shall be kept perfectly straight. If a man can row better so, they do not object to a slight curve of the shoulders. In the management of the slide, too, there are some differences. The Americans start their slides very fast, then slow them up about half way, and gradually come to a full stop. The Englishmen get their hands away very quickly, but slide forward slowly...
...taken control of the work of that institution. All the honors are distributed among: the athletes. The man with the most muscle is the Great Mogul. To day Russell is Governor of Massachusetts, not because of his great intellect, but through the patronage of Harvard athletes. The object of college training is not to turn out Kilrains and Sullivans, but to sharpen the intellect and broaden the man. There was a day when the plumes of the knight adorned the cap that crowned the strongest knots of brawn, but that was an age coeval with bull-fights and duels...
...object of the Theatre of Art and Letters, to which attention is called in another column, is so highly recommended by prominent members of the faculty that it seems fitting to call attention of the students to the first performance to-night. It is largely through the efforts of Harvard men that this work has been undertaken. As stated already the ultimate object is to establish a standard theatre, where plays written by the most famous American authors can be put on the stage for the public without undergoing the savage overhauling and distortions of unliterary managers. In other countries...
...that the blue book which has been left at Leavitt and Peirce's for signatures, will be taken away on Thursday night and tickets put on sale Friday morning. There are now enough men to warrant holding the dinner, but they represent but a third of the class. The object of this dinner is to bring all the members of the class into pleasant social relations with each other; to encourage a feeling of comradeship and to unite men of all descriptions on at least one point, a loyalty to the class of which they are members. If, then...
...found that the position of the pole in regard to the position of the zenith changed. If one travelled south, the pole became farther distant from the zenith, and if north, it became nearer. This then took place either because the earth was round or the pole was an object so near that it might be passed and left behind. But the ancients observed that the stars were very far distant and therefore arrived at the conclusion that the earth must be round...