Word: objectiveness
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Believing that the management of athletics, which are a means of recreation, and form no part of the regular college curriculum, belongs principally to the students, we object to the appointment by the college authorities of instructors in athletics, without giving the students a voice in such appointment. For the appointment of unsatisfactory instructors might lead to the seeking, on the part of individuals, of outside instruction, thus tending to defeat the general purpose of the resolutions against professionalism...
...made this year, but during the coming summer some radical changes in the system of drainage should be effected so that the season of 1884-5 may see the yard in a little better condition after any rain or thaw. This subject is a wearisome one but the desired object can only be obtained by showing the authorities how much the students object to these too frequent wettings...
...Francis A. Palfry on "Gaines Mill and the Peninsular Campaign." The purpose which McClellan had in view when he entered upon the disastrous campaign of the Peninsular was the crushing of the Confederate forces massed in front of Richmond, and the ultimate capture of the city. To accomplish this object, he had at his disposal troops to the number of a hundred thousand. To oppose him, Johnson, and afterward Lee, had about eighty thousand men. These estimates include all three branches of the service, and are approximately correct. McClellan had taken months to organize and discipline...
...first one, in reference to the appointment of a director of physical training, has no especial fault, other than its uselessness. We have no objection to the printing of a dozen names, more or less, in the college catalogue. In regard to the second resolution, excluding professional trainers, student opinion is divided. No one objects to the general theory that professionalism should be excluded from our athletics. But a great many do object to the methods which have been adopted to exclude that professionalism. The faculty certainly would not wish us to have amateur teachers in mathematics or physics...
...curious fact," says a recent writer, "that Darmouth was established with the same object as was Harvard: 'the education of English and Indian youth of this country in knowledge and godliness,' Of the several native who were members of the Harvard Indian College, only one graduated. The founder of Dartmouth was a Dr. Eleazer Wheelock, a graduate of Yale. One of his pupils was an Indian named Samson Occum, who afterwards because an effective preacher. He was Wheelock's prize scholar. Occum was a success, and Wheelock felt encoured, until in 1761 it has eleven pupils. More money was wanted...