Word: objective
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...putting definite and pertinent information with regard to Oxford at the service of the intending student, and (2) of becoming sufficiently well-informed to advance any project on foot for adapting Oxford conditions to the needs of the American members of the University. To accomplish the first object, which is of more immediate concern, the club intends to print a circular in which it will try to anticipate the questions likely to be asked about the Oxford University system in general, the opportunities and conditions of study in the University, and the advisability of connecting one's self with...
Spring football practice began yesterday afternoon with exercise in the principles of individual work and position play. Two teams will be formed as soon as possible and games will be played every second day. The chief object of the spring practice is to keep the heavy men in condition and to develop the Freshmen and the secondary material. The practice will continue every day until the spring recess. Sixteen men reported yesterday...
...Fencers' Club will hold a scratch tournament in the Gymnasium Thursday, March 29, at 7.45 p. m. The object of the tournament will be to pick the intercollegiate fencing team, which will consist of three men. It is desired that all the members of the Fencers' Club, and any other fencers in the University who are eligible for the team, will compete No prizes will be given and no entrance fee will be charged...
...graduates connected with the musical interests of the University to form a chorus of ten or fifteen men to go abroad this summer. The plan has received the provisional approbation of the Faculty, and the initial steps toward carrying out the idea will be taken at once. The object of the trip is primarily to secure for the men taken the exceptional musical and social advantages offered by such a trip. The chorus will give concerts, but merely for the purpose of paying expenses, as the trip is not to be in any sense a business venture...
...meet this strain the boy must in some way be prepared; the school and the college must co-operate to lessen the violence of the transition. The main object of both school and college is the same-to establish character and to make that character more efficient through knowledge and mental discipline. The transition, then, should be merely the continuation in a wider field of a gradual growth already well started, There should be continuity of steadying, stimulating influences. At present, the only continuous influence of much force is athletics; but athletics, however open to criticisms for over-prominence...