Word: objects
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...used mainly as a background for the exposition of Marlowe's personality. The poet's pursuit of happiness, his love of fame and his reputed atheism struggle against his spirituality and his finer nature which has been awakened by his noble love for Alison. It is to shield the object of this love that Marlowe seeks the duel which ends so fatally for him. Tradition has it that Marlowe was killed in a vulgar tavern brawl, but in the play the more honorable motive for the quarrel has been supplied. From the cynical genius and voluptuous coarseness of the traditional...
...Department of the Ethics of Social Questions, on the condition that it shall be named the Francis Greenwood Peabody Endowment Fund. The significance of the gift is that it ensures the permanence of the courses of instruction in social and economic questions from the standpoint of ethics, the object for which Professor Peabody has made such memorable efforts during his professorship in the University...
Under the auspices of the History Club there will be a meeting in the Assembly Room of the Union at 8.30 o'clock on Wednesday, May 10, to announce the plans and object of the new History Camp at Squam Lake. Addresses on the subject will be made by President Eliot, Professors A. B. Hart and I. N. Hollis, and Mr. R. M. Johnston...
...past two years Mr. Browne has conducted "Brantwood," an encampment for poor boys on Pack Monadnock Mountain, New Hampshire. This year he intends to enlarge the camp and will give his address tonight with the object of interesting some members of the University sufficiently to induce them to aid him in his work for short times next summer...
...Boylston Prizes were founded in 1817 through the generosity of Mr. Wars Nicholas Boylston, of Boston, who made a gift to the University of a fund of one thousand dollars, the income to be used for prizes in elocution. The object of the gift was to "promote the reputation of Harvard College" and to advance the objects for which the professorship of rhetoric and oratory was founded by Nicholas Boylston, Esquire, uncle of the donor...