Word: aims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There will be meetings in the Globe Theatre on five successive Sunday nights, beginning. The preachers to the University will speak; all else,- the music, the arrangements for time and place, the gathering of the audience-is in the hands of students. The aim is to reach the great class whom ordinary religious methods do not reach, not the slums alone, but such people as crowd the streets Sunday evenings. To appeal to no higher motive, this is one way, not perfect or complete, but certainly not visionary, of grappling with those tendencies in city life, which are a growing...
...athletes and careful management on the part of the athletic committee. The present officers of the Athletic Ascociation are taking a great interest in Yale's welfare in their department of athletics, and are leaving nothing undone which will in any way make success more certain. It is their aim to develop men for those events which are not very strong at present. Coxe's graduation leaves Yale without the winner of the two of the first prizes taken last spring. The Athletic Association now offer prizes for contests in throwing the hammer and putting the shot. Last winter...
What then can be done to make physical exercises more attractive to the masses and to relieve our sports from some of the evils that degrade them? The best way to accomplish this is to remind the individuals of the ultimate aim of physical exercise. Do not the harmonious development of the physique and the building up of the highest type of manhood, offer an inducement to work...
...observation, believing that on the simple factor, weight, height, and chest girths, could not be based a true estimate of ones physical condition. Realizing how much depends upon the proportion of the different parts of the body, he began his observations by an extended series of measurements. His next aim was to test the strength of the most important parts, for although as a rule, the girths of the different limbs represent the potential strength of their respective muscles, yet there are many exceptions, and the measurements have to be confirmed by an actual strength test. These trials were made...
...that the method pursued by Mr. Hayes is removed, as for as possible, from the spread-eagle, oratorical fashion which is in vogue in so many institutions, and which has brought the study of elocution into much contempt. Mr. Hayes lays stress on enunciation and pronunciation and his aim is to make men speak distinctly and as perfectly as possible. Those who wish to pursue this work will meet today in Holden Chapel from...