Word: objects
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...clock this afternoon on, "The American City Charter up to Date." Direct nominations, the short ballot, preferential voting, the initiative, the referendum, and the recall will be discussed as means to secure the control of a city by its inhabitants. There will also be a mock election as an object lesson in preferential voting. The lecture is open to the public...
...entertainment committee of the Speakers' Club has arranged an interesting program of meetings for the rest of the year. As it is the object of the club to give its members opportunity for practice in all forms of oratory, the program embraces the various forms of public speaking and platform address; and all afford an opportunity for hearing recitations by the best available public readers. To these regular meetings of the club members of the University are cordially invited. Men desiring to acquaint themselves with the nature of the club before requesting admission to membership are especially urged to attend...
...equal chance of getting into the most desirable dormitory, I would suggest that one entry in each building be set aside for those men wishing to apply in groups of 14, and that the rooms in the other entries be drawn for in the usual manner. After all, the object of having the Senior dormitories is to develop class unity. A. M. VAN RENSSELAER...
...urged against such a change as we here suggest that the primary object of the Senior dormitory plan is that the members of a class may be heterogeneously mixed, and that friendships and acquaintances may be extended. As a matter of fact, the conditions are quite otherwise. Senior year is not the time when new friendships are formed; it is rather the occasion for the intensifying of old friendships. The groups of four or of two keep to themselves, and it often happens that men living in the same entry are entire strangers to each other...
...without prescribed reading, and it is, furthermore, impossible for the instructor to see that the prescribed reading is done, without some mechanical test to that end. This test commonly takes the form of a short report written outside the class, and generally covering a wide field with no specific object stated...