Word: objects
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...inconsiderable moment, and a return to a sane view of what is due to a college man from a magazine published supposedly for his benefit. In this light the latest development of the Monthly as showing in its first number has its chief significance. Whether former editors will object to a change in policy which relegates to the memories of the past graduate articles of the literary mysticism of somebody's minor poems, which have been the cause of the Monthly's failure to find readers other than the purely literary, is a matter for future decision. Certain...
...During the Harvard game, cheering and singing were the only methods used--both in a legitimate manner--and we cannot understand why the CRIMSON refers to them as 'systematic attempts to berattle opponents.' We do not believe in cheering as a means of berattling opponents nor is this the object in view. Cheering as a means of support, however, we firmly uphold, and we do not believe that anyone will deny its beneficial effects in encouraging contestants. Cheering with this purpose has in some cases had opposite effects upon the opposing players, especially at periods when excitement runs unusually high...
...executive committees of the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton alumni clubs of St. Louis and vicinity have recently appointed a sub-committee to consider plans for the organization of a Harvard-Yale-Princeton World's Fair Club. The object of such a club is to provide, at some convenient spot on the grounds of the Exposition, suitable quarters for members of the local alumni clubs as well as for visiting graduates and undergraduates of the three colleges...
Early in June, letters will be sent to Seniors at Harvard, with the ultimate object of interesting them in the duty of taking some active part in politics, and of helping them to political usefulness...
...last of the series of practical talks, offered by the Travellers Club, will be given this evening by Professor R. W. Willson, on "Simple Determinations of Latitude and Longitude," in Harvard Hall, at 8 o'clock. The object of this talk is to show the most elementary methods of using astronomical observations in marking out the path that has been followed on a long journey by sea or by land; the methods are such as any intelligent traveller may easily learn and employ. The necessary instruments will be shown and explained. The officers of the Club desire to state that...