Word: aims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dabble much in literature; our effusions are accepted and refused by the college papers, refused and accepted by the magazines and comic papers, from the "Atlantic Monthly" to "Tid Bits", but to almost every litterateur, his aim is to write something acceptable for the moment; to grapple earnestly with literature never occurs to him. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and we would recommend to every nascent Victor Hugo - we are all such, of course - that instead of choosing topics that are easy to treat and hard to criticise - "Moonrise at Sea", "The Character...
...Although it is not true to the letter that we aim "at nothing higher" than giving athletic news, we submit these clippings to the judgement of our readers...
...whole, the crew should aim especially at getting together. The recover, too, is hurried, and there is a perceptible hang at full reach...
...only true education to an Indian was the one which "made men;" and ethics teaches as its aim the development of personality. This view of education is everywhere held to-day. Our college does not wish to turn out good students merely, but well-rounded men. But it is now an acknowledged fact that a college curriculum alone can never turn out such men as the world needs. Harvard, and indeed nearly every college now, recognizes this fact and provides lectures on general information, competitive prizes in numerous branches, and opportunities for athletic exercise of all kinds. Where the college...
...near New York, and, secondly, in the edict of the faculty forbidding contests with professionals, an advantage which our friends in the College League take good care to make the most of. To counterbalance these fundamental drawbacks, Harvard has a great work before her, and if she gains her aim now, higher honor will be awarded her energy and perseverance...