Word: aims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...repressive control. Which shall college authority be? Authority is necessary, ever-present authority. If the young man's choice is to become a thing of worth, it must be encompassed with limitations. But as the need of these limitations springs from the imperfections of choice, so should their aim be to perfect choice, not to repress it. This moral authority is what the new education seeks. As the elective principle is essentially ethical, its limitations, if helpfully congruous, must be ethical too. They must be simply the means of bringing home to the young chooser the sacred conditions of choice...
...most students are indefinite or unformed, and those of others are liable to change. In spite of all restrictions, suggestions, and advice, one is impressed with the great liability of students to misdirect their efforts, or from a lack of earnest purpose to drift through college without any special aim taking things that are easy to them, or that they fancy to be adapted to their tastes or their uses. Nothing could be worse or further from real education than a dilettante picking at this and that, or gathering fragments of knowledge in a dozen different fields. There seems...
...SELLERS,G. M. SEELEY,C. C. FOSTER.There has been some misunderstanding with college in regard to the character of the meetings of the Christian Association. Some have thought that they were limited to the members of the Association. This is entirely a mistake. The aim of the Association is to make all its meetings of interest to the college as well as to the Society, and any member of the university is always welcome...
...compulsory worship is the important change in the marking system. The abolition of percentages and individual ranking must be a subject of congratulation to all students, for we trust that the undergraduates here in Cambridge have reached that plane of scholarship where men believe that knowledge is the aim of college life, and not that knowledge is the means whereby a high rank may be obtained. The former system of credits was notoriously unfair, for who, if he be a man of insight, will undertake to say that one deserves a percentage of ninety-eight while the work of another...
Several men in college have made complaints in regard to the English literature courses in college. They say that they are altogether too superficial. They seem to lose sight of the aim of these courses. It is not intended in studying the history of English literature by centuries, to give a thorough study of the different writers. As has been several times expressed at the lectures, the idea of the courses is to give men a knowledge of who the writers are, what period and school they belong to, and what their general work has been. With this foundation laid...