Word: intention
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surely seems as if this was a step in the right direction, entirely in harmony with the progressive reputation of our university, and a step eminently advantageous to those intent on the medical profession...
...York World is the authority for the above statement, which we have taken from the Yale News. The brilliancy of the man who started the story cannot be surpassed by his evident malicious intent. In New York Harvard stands as the embodiment of Boston and Boston's peculiarities. For that reason she is assailed, but with an animosity which is far out of proportion to the Boston element in our population. But the New York press would do well to remember that Harvard is not a local affair although the prevailing influence here may come from the shores of Massachusetts...
...feather-weight sparring. Dame led with his left and Grew replied with a lively rally. Dame used his left and kept away from a good many of Grew's swinging rights. Grew hit several body blows. He kept up the same game in the second round and seemed intent on winding Dame. Dame replied to a swinging right with a straight right and left, both of which hit squarely. Grew forced the fighting and kept trying to land his right. Dame ducked very prettily. As in his bout with Clement Grew did good leading with his left in the third...
...most devoted Christian men here, as in many other institutions of learning, saw reason to believe that the usual forced attendance upon morning college prayers was of very doubtful utility. To huddle into a cheerless room a great mass of students just hurried from their breakfasts, with minds intent upon the recitation of the next hour, is certainly a very doubtful way of inducting young men into the beauty of holiness...
...enterprise and energy of the American student that brought into existence the college paper. German universities, too intent upon searching for etymological fossils and upon defining, with painful exactness, the functions of the Greek parties, never have had time for such diversions, and today, they have not what would be properly called a college paper. In England they have what they choose to call college papers, but they are, as a rule, edited and published by persons in no wise connected with the universities. A very few, however, are issued by the students...