Word: aim
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...impression first and last left by "Freshman English and Theme Correcting," is one of simple adaptability to the ends for which the book is designed. The aim throughout is to explain, without needless formality, the difficulties met by instructors in English A, and the methods used to obviate them. In the introductory chapter, the nature and mechanics of the course are briefly described. Common faults and their treatment are then taken up, with well-chosen examples for reference. Here the freedom of the book from the usual wearisome repetition of rules and stock sentences is particularly noticeable...
...chief aim in arranging these lectures is to make a beginning for a future course on oratory...
...Beginnings of Poetry," by Francis B. Gummere '75, is a careful and rather extensive study of the use of poetry as a social institution; it has for its aim, to quote from the opening chapter, "the recording, the classifying and the comparing of the poetic product at large." This involves an analysis of poetry with the view of determining its essential characteristic, which, the author decides, is rhythm. As will be seen, the strictness of the above conclusion bars out all so-called "poetic prose," such as the nobler passages in the Old Testament of the Bible. Indeed this result...
...fight for an oppressed people without the least thought of gain; and will send its ship laden with grain to a starving nation, from whom it has not received, and cannot receive, the least return. All the teachings of Jesus Christ centre about this vital principle of service. The aim of His life was ministering, not being ministered unto...
...most elementary of the three is English 18, "The Forms of Public Address," which is open to an unlimited number of Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. The aim of this course, as its name signifies, is to study the forms of public address. There is no actual speaking in the course, but every student is required to draw up two briefs, and to write five manuscripts of 1000-1500 words, two of which must be arguments. The choice of topics for the other three manuscripts and their treatment will largely be left to the discretion of each student...