Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...open, this difficulty is overcome and there is a variety and pleasure in outdoor exercise. But it requires not a little will power to keep up a constant attendance at the gymnasium when the work there consists of a dull routine of exercise on various machines with no definite object in view, and many a man gives it up after the first week. And yet this exercise is greatly needed...
...monotonous chest weights and Indian Clubs, he conducts them himself and holds them at a late hour in the afternoon when it is convenient for nearly all men. Considering, therefore, how well the class has answered the purpose we would recommend students who are not training for any special object to join...
...taken in the University Extension movement has led to a second national confererence on the subject, which will be held at Philadelphia on Thursday and Friday, December 29 and 30. The conference has been called by the committee of the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching. The object of the conference is to discuss the means of make the movement more general and efficient. Delegates will be present from the active centres of the work in the United States, including the leading colleges and Universities: President Andrews, of Brown; Prof. Albert S. Cook, of Yale, president...
...Gillespie L.S. spoke again on the Federal Election Bill. In the first place the Supreme Court has unanimously declared the bill constitutional. Its object is primarily, he said to do away with unfair or fraudulent balloting. In the South there are thousands of people unable to enjoy the privileges which the constitution gives them. If the negroes are too ignorant to vote, the southern states should require education. The Elections Bill is to remedy the difficulties. It is in fact an anti-force bill...
...various conditions of society cause much distress, the alleviation of which is the object of charity. It is the attempt to change the social conditions producing these effects, which gives rise to the labor question. The actions of the charity worker must be controlled by business method, which demands a thorough knowledge of the forces operating to produce the conditions observed. No large institutions of charity could exist, however, on a purely business basis. It is the moral, the charitable motive of those who establish them and carry them on, which makes them a success...