Word: aim
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...shown by the recent pamphlet of courses. Undoubtedly the most important of these is the founding of a professorship in Comparative Literature, since it involves a rearrangement of several courses. Professor A. R. Marsh will be the lecturer in this course for the year 1900-01; and the aim will be to give students a clear and comprehensive idea of the development of European literature, from the Middle Ages to the middle of the nineteenth century. With a view to securing better system in the arrangement of work, courses 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 form a chronological series...
...these purposes, Christ recognized three: alms-giving, ministry to the aesthetic pleasures of life, and an honorable use in our daily affairs. The great aim in the management of wealth should be to see the dangers of being drawn into luxury, and to avoid them either by mastering or by abandoning riches...
Although the aim of the library is to furnish books for these particular classes, there are a number of general works on theology and ethics. There are also a few collections of the best contemporaneous sermons, including eight volumes of the sermons of Phillips Brooks. The books are for the use of all members of the University, but cannot be taken from Brooks House. In order to give full opportunity for the use of the library, the Christian Association rooms will hereafter be open on Sunday afternoons from 2.30 to 6. The needs of further additions have been recently placed...
...night in Brooks House. The special subject was "Ethics and Religion." Professor Palmer began by showing that in religion we have a field far more closely allied to ethics than either Law or the Fine Arts. There are, of course, certain lines of difference between them; but the first aim should be to establish their similarity...
...fact to be noticed in this new religious interest is that the spiritual life rises from ourselves, from our own thoughts and acts, and that it does not come from without. Indeed, the original and crude forms of religion all proceed from a natural instinct of self preservation. Our aim should be to harmonize our lives with God's, as far as this is possible, and this is what great prophets have always done...