Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...downright and unconcealed slugging of Saturday's game is also condemned. There is a great deal of difference between a game played strongly by both teams, which is necessarily rough, and one when the aim of a team is evidently to knock their opponents out or to use them up so that they are unfit to offer any resistance...
...catholic students at Yale have formed a society called the Yale Catholic Union. The aim of the club is, in the main literary, and all catholics in the university are eligible to membership...
...fail to see the justice of the faculty's regulation. College life is free and easy, and athletics particularly so engaging that it is very easy for us to forget the higher duties we are here to perform. But intellectual culture is, or ought to be after the primary aim of college life. Athletics are well in their place-are essential, in fact, but just as soon as they begin to absorb the best of our energies, a halt must be called. And this is virtually what has been done. It has been found that some men neglect their college...
...service for the class of '89. This annual Baccalaureate service is always well appreciated, but was made especially valuable yesterday by the rare treat of a sermon from Dr. A. P. Peabody. Taking as his text "Self-respect" the preacher urged every Harvard graduate to make self respect his aim in life. If exery man aim at and follows steadily a high ideal and repents thoroughly of his past sins, his moral character will be worthy of respect, Every man ought, after his exceptional facilities for work at college to respect himself as a scholar by having a genuine knowledge...
...gloomy. There seems to be plenty of material but it is not all of the best order. Such being the case, the only possible hope for success lies in unceasing practice. Every candidate must realize the responsibility which rests upon him personally, and he must make it his sole aim to let every personal consideration give way to the general good...