Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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During the past year courses in scientific research under the direction of Edward C. Pickering, L. L. D., have been carried on with encouraging results. This is the primary object of the institution and elementary instruction is not given. At present there are about forty assistants engaged in the work, and excellent facilities are offered for study in nearly all branches of astronomy. The observatory is especially fortunate in its opportunities for photographing the stars, the arrangements being superior to those of any other institution...
...Pfeiffer then described rather hurriedly the digestive organs, to enable him to speak of the ancient ideas of digestion. Starting with the idea of its being a sort of putrefaction, ideas progressed through various stages until, by ingenious experiments, it was found that the object of the stomach was to dissolve the food. In the next lecture Dr. Pfeiffer proposes to treat of the processes of digestive fermentation...
...that city. President Low of Columbia will preside, and it is expected that a core of colleges will be represented. Unfortunately President Eliot will not be present, he has a previous similar engagement in Boston on that day. Harvard will therefore be represented by Prof. Shaler. The object of the meeting is the discussion of the subject "Education and the colleges" and each speaker is expected to defile the attitude of the institution which he represents toward the educational problems with which all the colleges have to dea. After these exercises a graduate glee cub will sing and the visiting...
...institute is founded to promote education in art, science and industry. Its chief object is the extension and improvement of industrial education as a means of opening better and wider avenues of employment to young men and women. It will provide liberal means of culture for the masses by means of lectures, evening classes, a library and a museum. The work of the institute will be arranged under these general divisions...
...afford to give. But there is a belief that there was considerable unnecessary extravagance last year, that money was spent in ways that the glee club had no right to spend it in view of its debt to the college and the pressing need of the crew. No one objects to the club having a good time during the trip and after it, but there are a great many who object to needless and selfish extravagance. There seems to be a disposition in glee club circles to regard it as merely a favor that the club gives anything...