Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Garrison said that since he had made the motion of the night before to appoint the committee, he wanted to state that his object in wording the motion as it was put was that the students should not be committed to employing detectives. That part of the business was expressly left to the discretion of the committee. This committee had decided that in their judgment this was not the proper thing to do, and feeling that in their refusal to hire detectives they might not be supported by public opinion they had decided to call a second mass-meeting...
...give public expression to the indignation entertained by the whole college over the wanton acts committed after the celebration last Saturday night. The meeting was called to order a few minutes after seven by S. Dexter, 1st, president of the senior class, who stated in a few words the object of the meeting. G. T. Goldthwaite, '91, then offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted...
Granting, as you have suggested editorially, that the Harvard men here are biased by their wish to have the football game played in this city, is not the wish entirely proper and commendable? Surely the Boston men ought not to object, for under the proposed arrangement they will still have half the ball games played in their vicinity every year, and every other year the track athletics; while we at this end will lose the latter, at present the only contest in which we have a chance, without taking a day's journey, to see a Harvard team compete...
...first meeting of the Modern Language Conference will be held this afternoon and ought to attract a large audience. The conference is a new enterprise. undertaken by the instructors in the departments of English, German, French and Romance Philology. Its object is to present to the public papers prepared by students in advanced courses in these departments. Many of these papers represent a great amount of research and original thought, and are worthy of a wider attention than mere criticism by the instructor under whose charge they are prepared. To give the whole college an opportunity to reap some benefit...
Eleven scrub nines have already entered for the scrub championship and a few more are expected to enter today-the final date of entry having been postponed from last night to tonight. The members of all the nines have never played on any class or 'varsity nines, and the object of the baseball management in getting up the series is to develop good material for future 'varsity nines. Owing to the large number of teams entered, it will be impracticable for each nine to play with every other nine; some other arrangement will have to be made, so that...