Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Their aim is at once to put the new institution in a higher grade than any other college in the country, and, to effect this, they intend only to offer such instruction as does not usually come within the limits of an undergraduate's course. The chief object is, not to enable boys to forestall the regular work of a professional school in order that they may begin their practice at an early age, but to promote learning by encouraging young graduates to continue their studies. By offering large salaries and the prospect of having students who are intelligent...
...views of the occupations and interests of others. Taking it for granted (though it is seldom true) that a man is trying to get as much good as possible from his college years, is seeking to broaden and strengthen his character, - and this should be the chief aim of our early life, the question with him will not be, "Ought I to give any time to each of these occupations?" but "How much time ought each to have...
...many illustrations of this truth, is that translations of Greek tragedies may be made, are made, which, while wonderfully literal, breathe in every line the peculiar, indefinable spirit of our own literature. Here is the clew to the proper method of instruction in the Greek authors; the teacher should aim to bring out the human and literary side of the work he is engaged upon, and not to treat the Greek book merely, or even almost, as an antiquated piece of writing, full of many curious puzzles and "posers," or as a text for grammatical dissertations. In other words...
...college work comparatively easy, while others will have great difficulty in maintaining a high position in the large classes, now the rule and not the exception in our larger and older Colleges. The disparity comes from the different grades of the schools in which men are fitted; if the aim of the school be to send the largest number of men in "clear," a general knowledge of the required subjects is drilled into them, and a variety of "tips" and "choice phrases" give a brilliant and naturally bright scholar sufficient veneering to pass with distinction...
...philosophy or history? We could wish it were so, but it is scarcely ever the fact. Since the degree of bachelor is indispensable, since it is the only entrance to all the liberal pursuits, it happens that the obtaining of the degree becomes the principal object. The great aim is not to become educated, but to pass one's baccalaureat. The subjects not demanded on the examination are neglected, and even those required are learned in a superficial manner. Instruction becomes wholly a matter of memory, not of reflection, or judgment. The mind is stuffed, not cultivated, and thus studies...