Word: objectiveness
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...fellow-collegians he is unrestrained by any vulgar laws of proportion. After all, why should not a Yale man, if he likes, have a head three times as long as his body, or a leg about the size of his little finger? Far be it from us to object, although we must confess that to our uneducated mind an ordinary man is a more pleasing object than a being who, in addition to the pleasing peculiarities above-mentioned, has a parallelogram for a body, a square for a head, straight lines for limbs, and dots for features; but we confess...
...given unless a fixed standard be attained. And in the interest of Harvard Athletics this is a most fortunate decision. Our best record is not flattering when compared with other American colleges. But put it side by side with that of Oxford or Cambridge, and it becomes an object for commiseration...
...will be elective." I was contemplating a study of the modern languages, when I was informed that Italian and Spanish were not included in the "scheme." My father suggests that I had better pursue one of the natural sciences, but, as I was conditioned in Nat. Hist. 3, I object to awakening unpleasant memories. Fancying that I would have a soft thing on geology while at sea, I thought of taking that, but I have given it up, for they tell me one of the Yale professors lectures three times a week in that course, and nine hours of laboratory...
...promise; but, versification being the only difficulty in translating, good versifying is the only merit of the translator. The thought being the only creditable part of the "The Flower and the Cloud," in the last Yale Courant, and that belonging to its original author, we can see no possible object in its publication...
...nothing but disgust in the minds of those who turned their eyes from the tree to the howling mob of undergraduates. The Seniors' rush for flowers is not wholly unconnected with sentiment, is not brutal, and, though thoroughly undignified, is amusing. The cheering and class song no one can object to; and, as a last argument for the continuance of these "exercises," they form an agreeable interlude between the dancing in the afternoon and the teas in the evening, allowing our guests an opportunity for rest, and ourselves a chance to lay in a new stock of small talk...