Word: objective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only way to obtain an end so much to be desired is for seniors to exercise great care in their disposal of tickets which they do not need. Class day tickets are not a proper object for speculation; yet there have been times when they were openly offered for sale. Members of the class can always find among their classmates men who are only too glad to pay them a fair price for extra tickets. Gentlemen would hesitate to speculate in tickets to a private reception, and the committee trusts that the same delicacy will be felt in disposing...
...decoration as on any other day of the year they concluded that corporations were indeed soulless. Not a flower was before a single-one of the many names engraved on the marble tablets which line the transept; not a flag floated in the breeze. Memorial Hall had another object besides that of a memorial; it was intended to educate the youth of Harvard College in patriotism. We cannot help asking if to disregard the laws of the State which made yesterday a legal holiday, to neglect on that day of all days recognition of the patriot dead, to leave Memorial...
...said that the ladies of the Harvard annex declined an invitation to join the recently organized association of "Collegiate Alumnae," the object of which is to unite alumnae of different institutions for practical educational work...
...Longfellow Memorial Association (in whose list of members appear the names of numerous Harvard graduates and professors) has published a circular calling for "National Dollar Subscriptions" to promote the scheme for the erection of a suitable memorial of the poet in Cambridge. Its object it states as follows...
...spoken of it, we may be allowed to make some comments upon the howl of the Harvard advertising sheets as to Yale's wit, of which they claim our Wednesday number is the professed exponent. Evidently their disciplined memories do not recall what we declared to be our object at the outset. We said that we should endeavor to furnish pieces of a light and entertaining nature. They persist in looking for 'funny' articles - 'side-splitters' is their other euphonious name for it." The News adds that it is content to let the matter rest where...