Word: aims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard, Yale, and similar institutions. It will be on a higher plan than these, in some respects like Johns Hopkins, and will be devoted to special advanced research, especially in technical studies. Its departments will include mathematics, physics. chemistry, biology, psychology, and the special study of languages, it will aim to take graduates from the colleges and fit them for the exceptional and rare work demanded of specialists in various branches of science. Special advantages will be offered to students in the way of prizes and fellowships...
...person? Early in September there is to be begun in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and London, the publication of a journal for young people, of a grade of St. Nicholas and the Youth's Companion, but unlike either in character of contents. It has a new field and its aim will be: The best juvenile journal in the world...
...Cobb, of the CRIMSON; poet, Mr. H. T. Parker, of the Monthly, and chorister, Mr. R. E. Faulkner of the CRIMSON. The oration set forth the position now occupied by each of the college papers, and defined the province which each paper should make it its aim to fill. The poem was a very bright one, and the frequent personal allusions were most apropos and elicited much applause. The menu was illustrated by a member of the Lampoon board, and were exceedingly unique in design...
...proposed scheme of a union dinner of the editors of the Advocate, Lampoon, Monthly and CRIMSON is an important and significant innovation. These four publications fill very different places and satisfy very different demands but, after all, their aim is the same. Forming. as they do, the strongest incentive to literary work, they are coming to see that their power in the future must depend largely upon their unity. The apparent rivalry between them has always been more fancied than real. That phase of college journalism by which one paper makes capital by carping at another is past. At Harvard...
...records, will be worked up and the names and records will be published of all those who have a rank above 675. It is desirable for not only those men who have never been examined to present themselves, but for those who have had previous examinations, for the aim of this list is to show the athletic standing of the men at present, and by that the benefit which has been derived from the gymnasium during the last ten years. Those who wish to be examined can make appointments for that purpose at any time before...