Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cultivate the social as well as the scholarly interests of the members has been the aim of the international organization everywhere. At different places this ideal is sought in different ways; at Cornell, for instance, a residence building has been thought necessary. In this University more modest methods have sufficed. It is still too soon for the full effects of the cosmopolitan movement to be evident; it is not too much to say, however, that it will promote the interchange of students between countries and in some measure aid the cause of international harmony...
...that up to the very last he found his most congenial occupation in correcting and preparing for the press the work of another--the doctoral dissertation of a recent graduate of the University who had been one of his favorite pupils. As long as it continues to be the aim of Harvard to set before her students high standards of scholarship and worthy examples of unselfish devotion to noble ends, just so long will the name of Charles Gross stand among the foremost on her roll of honor
...Harvard's glory shall be our aim...
...Harvard's glory shall be our aim...
From the very beginning the aim of inventors has been to arise in a machine which is heavier than air. There were two kinds of these machines, one like a bird, with wings to flap, and the other like a kite. The former has turned out to be worthless, but the latter has been developed into the aeroplane. The first attempt to fly in one of these machines was made in 1894 with little success. Not until almost the beginning of this century when Langley, Chanute, and the Wright brothers turned their attention to this invention was anything like success...