Word: objectiveness
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Hilliard & Metcalf, Cambridge, published the Lyceum, as they did later the Register and the Collegian. The paper appeared semi-monthly and had as chief editor Edward Everett. In their "Address," the editors proclaim it to be the object of their paper to present the "many valuable hints suggested in a course of general study, which can only be published with propriety in the miscellaneous collections of a periodical pamphlet. . . . It is to be the publick common-place of its contributors." And then in further detail they explain what subjects will especially be treated: American literature; discussions of the "various subjects...
...society has been organized in Germany whose object is to shorten hours of school work, and introduce and cultivate out-door games among the students of the higher schools...
Unity says of the Harvard Total Abstinence League: "Its object is to create a stronger college sentiment against drinking. In a too apologetic tone, it seems to us, it promises not to be fanatic, to require no pledges, and not to weary the students with importunities. It will aim to make its lectures few but fine...
...smile the rehearsal of a man's loss of self respect, if the time should come when a man shall no longer consider that he is advancing himself in social esteem by allowing himself to forget his manliness, but that he is on the contrary making himself an object of pity, more good would be wrought than the best framed pledges and societies could hope for." It is notoriously the custom of college men to take a Horatian and liberal view of life in as far as relates to pleasures of the cup. But intemperance, we rest assured, has always...
...Running High Kick, the next event, there were five contestants: W. Soren, '83, W. O. Edmands, S. S., S. Coolidge, '83, J. W. Fox, '83, and A. H. Ripley, L. S. The object kicked at was a tambourine, which was suspended, for the first kick, 5 feet 6 inches from the floor. All of the contestants reached it easily at this point, and it was gradually raised until Fox retired at 7 feet 4 inches. He was soon followed by Ripley, who failed to reach it at 7 feet 8 inches. Coolidge retired at 8 feet, and was followed...