Word: aims
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...literature a foremost place in our curriculum, - not to encourage a faithful critical investigation of the common speech of two great Saxon nations. That speech is surely as worthy of attention as is Hebrew or Sanskrit; and its demands need not even interfere with the one end and aim of life, - a thorough knowledge of the noble dialect of Athens...
...College institution; that danger has passed away; but there is, unhappily, still extant a feeling that every one of the several sections into which each class is divided should have a due representation; even last year there was some dissatisfaction expressed over the "distribution" of the officers. The aim of a class should be to secure the most able men for each position, irrespective of his standing as regards the various societies. Class Day is not Society Day, and if, on account of the careful allotment of so many offices to each society, the exercises should prove uninteresting...
...Yard will be paled in. This will be a great improvement over the old plan. It seems impossible with the rope to keep out the rabble; and before the evening is over the crowd is so large that one cannot move about the Yard with any comfort. The aim of the Committee is to distribute the Yard-tickets among the class, and if all are careful as to whom they give them, next Class Day will be free from an element heretofore too conspicuous. All persons found in the Yard after five o'clock without tickets will be removed...
Samples of the aitegraph have been sent to the Ferocity, and I have offered them an elegant crayon portrait of myself for every five machines sold by them or their agents. It is my aim to reach every Harvard student, including the Annex...
...school are to be deemed ineligible, and only those who are pursuing some special course of study will be allowed to hold a proctorship. While agreeing that a change for the better can be made, we hope that the plan proposed, if we are rightly informed as to its aim, will not be adopted, because of its unjust discrimination. Men who have gone through college on scholarships and who enter the Law School, for example, need help then as much as at any previous time; and proctorships are almost the only resource, scholarships in the Law School being small...