Word: intention
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...true that the original colonists were narrow, bigoted, and possessed of many unlovely traits of character, but these traits are always possessed by those who are working in earnest and striving for enlightenment in education and morals. The chief intent of Harvard College was to provide ministers for the Colonists, but it was soon found that college-bred men were eminently fitted for high offices in both the government of the state and in commercial spheres of life. Among the latter may be ranked the governors, Joseph Dudley, Stoughton and Saltonsdall. John Harvard numbered among his friends John Cotton...
Among the exchanges which have already come, the Yale News attracts attention by its increased size and improved appearance. Yale undergraduate life is waking up to the importance of having a larger amount of new each day, and the editors seem intent on satisfying them. The paper has been increased from a three to a four-column sheet, and is now slightly larger in size than the CRIMSON, but contains about the same amount of reading matter as our paper. The quality of the matter has also improved, and we congratulate the Yale men on the new state of affairs...
...transept. All the morning the air was filled with the sound of martial music, which reached a culmination about noon, when a procession, accompanied by much drumbeating and blare of trumpets, passed by the windows of Massachusetts, within which sat imprisoned a lot of helpless mortals busily intent upon the passing of examinations, but who found all the noise and jollification without hardly compatible with their sober thoughts. This procession finally made its way to Sanders Theatre, where, by permission of the college authorities, the literary exercises of the day were held. Here a large crowd, including a considerable number...
Meanwhile '84 and '85 were tugging away at their oars in a close struggle to reach the Union boat-house, while the freshmen seemed intent on making for the long Cambridge bridge. Half way down the course they turned and followed up the leaders, rowing a fast and effective stroke. '84 came in ahead by over a length, and the freshmen finished four or five lengths behind '85. Owing to the fact that no tugs followed the boats closely the time could not be ascertained, but one estimate figures it at under ten minutes. The crowd and students...
...Eliot, however, occupies at present a peculiarly prominent position before the public in consequence of the recent agitation of the general subject of college athletics largely set on foot him. Any expression of opinion relating to this subject by President Eliot, such as the above, and delivered with the intent of influencing the opinion of a part or of the whole public naturally can be expected to attract attention and to provoke criticism. Such expression of opinion, therefore, we venture to suggest, should be carefully considered and sifted of all inaccuracies or dubious statements, before it is made...