Word: aim
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...them would regret it. Or I might make the course entertaining and adjust it to the level of the friend who "slept most of the time." In either case the course would beautifully climb up in the list of the canvass, but its chief purpose would be missed. My aim has been every year to bring psychology to as many men as there are seats in the largest hall of Emerson and yet to keep the course on a high scientific level so that the best men may get the most possible...
...Senior Spread Committee. According to the rather contradictory wording of the notice, "during the past three or four years the dance has been a success in every way except in the percentage of Seniors who have attended it." To make it an almost essentially Senior affair is the aim of this year's committee, and to carry out this aim the co-operation of the whole class is needed. It was very apparent at recent spreads that although a goodly number of Seniors attended, there was no universal enthusiasm among the members of the graduating class. This year should...
...Harvard's glory shall be our aim...
...first of a series of lectures on a "Programme of Philosophy, Based on Modern Logic," and the whole are intended as an introduction to a course treating the theories of knowledge and of reality as they have been modified by the recent discoveries in logic. The present course will aim to define the nature and presuppositions of the theory of being, based on these discoveries...
Since the aim of collegiate training is to develop good citizens, there can be no doubt that student regulation of student activities is not only desirable but necessary. And if student government is practicable anywhere, it is practicable in Harvard. The variety of interests, the lack of petty jealousies, the cosmopolitanism, that very "indifference" and "lack of college spirit," which consists of having one's own opinions on collegiate as on other matters,--in short, all those qualities which make our University great as opposed to provincial insure the success of any well launched scheme of undergraduate self-government...