Word: aim
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first issue of the Harvard Republican, a four-page paper with five twenty-inch columns to a page, and containing no advertising, will appear this afternoon. The Republican will be issued every Friday through the campaign, and will aim to put before Harvard men those phases of the campaign most likely to interest them. To a great extent the contributions to the paper will be written by Harvard graduates...
...woman can do strenuous work in the world, that will be found the best training. A course of study should only be long enough to win power; the sooner you begin to use it the better. Do not get in four years what you can get in three. Our aim in life is not to work for our own improvement; we must work on that we may in this way be of service to others...
...also the Boston Herald, the New York Herald, the Boston Transcript, the Congregationalist, the Watchman, the Outlook, Life, McClure's Magazine and Harper's and Leslie's Weeklies. The library itself contains an excellent collection of the most recent books on biblical topics, in the selection of which the aim has been to secure works most useful in the courses offered by the Association for Bible study. The nine volumes of sermons by Phillips Brooks make an especially interesting collection for these courses...
Although no definite list of courses for next year has yet been made, there are several changes that are being considered. Most important of these relates to the Civil Service examinations. Heretofore the classes at prospect Union have made no special aim of preparing men to take these examinations; but next year the work will be so directed as to fill the government requirements in the different branches of the service. This plan is sure to increase the value of many of the courses, as well as the attendance, for by it the men are given a more practical goal...
...position in which civil service stands today, as shown by its past history. Mr. Fish has compiled a set of tables, showing in detail the removals from office under various presidents of the United States. The last pamphlet is by F. H. Miller on "Qualifications for Office." The aim of this work is to show the gradual tendency in our country to throw open public offices to all classes and sects. These three monographs have been accepted by the American Historical Society, and will appear in its next annual report. Eventually they will be published by the United States Government...