Word: objects
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...object of these runs is primarily to get as many men as possible interested in track work; and secondarily to keep the men in good condition for the winter and spring work. This work is particularly advantageous to the distance...
...addition to these courses, there will be voluntary classes, which will be duly announced, for elementary and advanced work in public speaking and reading. Mr. Copeland has also conducted for the past four years a Law School Debating Club, which has as its object the practice of informal and extemporaneous speaking...
...utter self-absorption to some one task of his own, to the accomplishing of some purpose, to the achievement of reputation and renown; and often he accomplishes his task only to find that the prize he has grasped has turned to ashes in his hand, that in gaining an object he has lost the sweetness of life, that in winning a place a place in men's estimation he has lost his place in men's hearts. Again, there is the other type of man, who while striving for his own definite purpose yet turns aside to give his energies...
...here when some disputed point of small importance is held up to public view for weeks by the daily press. Such publicity, according to English ideas, smacks too strongly of professionalism, or at least lays undue emphasis on something that should be merely the recreation of gentlemen, not the object in life for the time being of all interested...
...Address to Radcliffe Graduates," by C. E. Norton, '46, is a graceful bit of advice as to some of the objects and results of education. To quote: "The final aim and effort of civilization is to make life pleasanter; and this is the object of what we call good manners. . . . Manners,' as Emerson says, 'are the happy ways of doing things,' and the the best manners are those which have their root in habitual self-respect and in consideration for others." Good manners, the use of moral influence, the cultivation of an inner life, all are urged as due from...