Word: aime
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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English masterpieces of the nineteenth century, by Miss Vida D. Scudder. The aim of the course will be less the study of literature than the apprehension of life through literature. The masterpieces chosen will be such as express the relation of literature to different movements in sociology, art and religion...
...Bowdoin Prize dissertations, on the subject "An Historical Sketch of the Theories of Electricity with Especial Reference to Changes in Recent Years," will be read by A. W. K. Billings '95, at 7.45 this evening in Sever 5. The aim of the paper is to discuss, in as non-technical a manner as possible, the reasons for past changes, the present conceptions and the supporting experimental evidence. The reading is open to the public...
...that they made for themselves by sin, and by pointing out the way by which they must ascend to blessedness. In few other works of men do we find such uninterrupted consistency of purpose as in the Divine Comedy. From the beginning to the end of the poem the aim of Dante is to guide his fellow men to righteousness and never for a moment do we lose sight of the great, resolute purpose of the poet...
...poet, though to many persons he means little in this character. In his verse he cares only to sing of the beautiful things of tragedy and pathos, without trying to teach; while in his prose he is ever intent upon teaching. In his essays his great aim is to reform the Philistine. Another guise in which Matthew Arnold appears to us is as the gentle critic of pure literature; the reader and the commentator of the best things, which he wished to see prevail. In this character he wrote his essay on Keats, which gives such pleasure to lovers...
...will be the aim of the editors in future to make that part of the Magazine which deals with undergraduate affairs particularly readable...