Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ninety board assumes control of the paper it will be their earnest aim to follow the example of the preceding board and maintain the present high standard of the CRIMSON, and by further improvements, as far as is in their power, to make it all that it should be as the college daily...
...first number of the Green Bag, a magazine about to be published by Soule and Co., with the aim to give the humorous side of the law, will have for its leading article, a paper on the Harvard Law School by Louis D. Brandeis, secretary of the Harvard Law School Alumni Association. The paper will be profusely illustrated. The second article will be by Professor Ames and will be upon "Scientific performance Quasi-Contracts...
...hypothesis and experiment. The demands made by the scientific method wherever employed are very numerous, but of these only, four need now be considered: (1) Singleness of purpose, the only object being the attainment of truth. All preconceived notions liable to mislead must be laid aside. (2) Directness of aim. One must not be diverted by other interests. (3) Thoroughness. Every point, however trivial, must be examined carefully, and always with a due sense of proportion. (4) Fearlessness. Compliance with these demands, which are made by the scientific method on all of its willing students, must produce marked effects...
...most importance to the college is the elaborate editorial filling several pages near the end of the number. Its aim is to stimulate men to become more than mere plodders or idlers along the intellectual highway; to show the vast superiority of those students who. putting aside the petty spirit which drives men to work for marks or examinations alone, adopt instead an ultimate idea of true and broad culture. An abuse too prevalent at Harvard-the nursing system of private tutors-is treated with the open and unqualified contempt it deserves. If the Monthly continues thus ably to discuss...
...book is admirably gotten up, everything being arranged systematically, the clubs according to their aim, etc., so that any information sought can be readily found. Evidently great pains have been taken by the editors in the arrangement of the information published and in getting the names of men correctly. The book is remarkably free from mistakes. The Index is invaluable, and every one who wants a handy source of information about college matters should...