Word: objects
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...invited to send a representative to a meeting to be held at the house of the Boston Athletic Association, on Exeter St. Boston, on Saturday, April 13, at 3 p. m., for the purpose of organizing a new rowing association. The object of this association is to bring into competition crews and scullers from the leading college rowing clubs of the country and from such other rowing clubs as believe in maintaining at the highest standard the integrity of amateur rowing...
...whether he may not contrive "trick plays" in his argument, whether he, too, cannot snap the ball back with double passes, and in his course work he comes to you with a brief in which he has tried carefully to conceal the large part of his case. When you object that the plan is, as a brief, inadequate, that you see his little game, and that you have already seen it many times among his predecessors in your course, he looks a bit sheepish, but you still have to struggle with him week by week to make him give...
...Harvard Union to afford a social opportunity within the reach of all Harvard men. This has been the authorized statement from the very start, and if it means anything less than this, a vast amount of beautiful talk has been worse than wasted. And if this is the fundamental object, this consideration should govern the annual dues, rather than any notion of what might be desirable in other respects. Economy is an absolute necessity in any general college enterprise. The self-supporting student who carries his own burden can bear only a light weight in addition. The dependent student...
This Constitution may be altered or amended by a majority vote of two hundred members present at two successive meetings such meetings to be held not less than one week apart; notice of the first meeting, and its object, being posted ten days in advance; provided, however, that the Board of Trustees shall concur in such alteration or amendment...
...object was that of a University Club--to pull the University together. In order to give some definite interest to the club, it was decided to organize it as a debating club. This specialization of one particular interest proved fatal to the plan of uniting the college, for after the original founders had graduated, their purpose was forgotten, and the Harvard Union lasted as a debating club only, until its name was changed to the University Debating Club...