Word: objects
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...breaking of the Concordat of 1801, said Father de la Chapelle, was in itself an unspeakable act on the part of the government. The government declared that by breaking the Concordat the church and the state would be made independent of each other; but in reality the object of the breach was to enable the state to control the church and appropriate all its property to state uses. When the Pope protested against such action on the part of the state, an agreement was suggested by the latter that worship associations, composed of persons interested in the church, be instituted...
...annual meeting of the Harvard Officers' Fund Association, held yesterday afternoon, Professor C. R. Lanman was elected chairman for 1906-07, and Professor J. B. Ames was elected acting secretary and treasurer, owing to illness of Professor E. H. Hall. The object of the association is to maintain a fund to give aid to officers of the University in case of sickness...
...subscribers to this fund have left the designation of its use to the undersigned committee; and the committee, after consideration of various projects, concludes that the memorial object of the fund will be best attained--first, by setting aside a sum with which the Corporation shall procure a memorial tablet to be put in the Geological section of the University Museum, or some other suitable place as may be designated by the Corporation; and second, by using the income of the balance of the fund for the benefit of the Division of Geology, in support of original research...
Under the joint auspices of the Christian Association, the Harvard Mission, and the St. Paul's Society, a series of talks beginning next Thursday, will be given in Phillips Brooks House, on the subject of mission work in foreign countries. The object of the talks is to put before the students of the University some details of the work being carried on by foreign missions...
...Verein Deutsch-Amerikanischer Studenten has been reorganized, new of ficers elected and the name changed. The new officers are: F. A. Thomsson '09, president; V. H. Todd '07, secretary-treasurer. The new name is "Deutscher Studentenzirkel." Several new members were also voted in. The object of the club is to give men practice in speaking German...