Word: objectivity
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...Sargent in a recent lecture, differed in that the former had three ends to attain - a perfect mind in point of education, a perfect working condition of the organs of the body, and especially a perfect body in the point of beauty and art - while the latter's sole object was to fit the body to endure the hardships of war. Thus among the Greeks we find the most perfectly and beautifully developed athletes. At the fall of Rome, and with the rise of Christianity, there was a change in the former ideas of physical training. Whereas the Greeks...
...with the act passed in this year that Mr. Taussig began. The act of 1857 had so far reduced duties in general that temporary loans had to be made, and this fact gave rise to the preparation of the Morrill bill in 1861. The object of the bill was to cause duties to return to what they were in 1846, and it was intended to be protective. Its distinguishing feature was the substitution of specific for ad valorem duties. The chief changes in the taxation were upon wool and pig iron. For the first time in the history of tariff...
This is but a brief summary of the contents of a room whose every nook discloses some rare and antique object. To give but a list of what it contains would fill a volume...
...students are present. The new system allows the student to cut one-tenth of the required exercises, e. g., seven out of the seventy chapel exercises this term, without rendering an excuse. The trustees and faculty are practically unanimous in supporting this number of services, but the students strongly object to more that one compulsory service on Sunday. The afternoon church is in great disfavor among the students, it being the general opinion that the only object of its existence is to keep the men in town. Efforts are continually being made to have it abolished, and it is thought...
...that form of religious opinion, "whose bulwarks are the Trinity on one side and hell on the other," is held by Vassar students to be their one great grievance in the matter of "religious discipline." Daily chapel is not, on the whole, regarded as an infliction. Vassar does not object to the quantity of her religious exercises. She does protest against forced religious instruction, not, we admit in the interests of a denomination, but certainly of a school...