Word: aime
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Possibly the most interesting article to Harvard men, in the Atlantic Monthly for May is on "The Present Requirements for Admission to Harvard College." There is an excellent account of the evolution of our mode of conducting examinations together with a good discussion of the aim of the college in the matter of choice of subjects. The number contains also some correspondence of Emerson and Thoreau and several stories and poems...
Sainte Beuve was the foremost engineer in literature. He gave a new impulse to criticism and brought it up to a place of vital importance. In 1828, he published his first formal contribution to literature in the form of a criticism, the aim being to show that the early poets were the ancestors of the romanticists. In the course of the next ten years he published three volumes of poetry. Though the verses were well written and often of a religious turn of mind they did not meet with the success he had anticipated. He realized that he was intended...
...General Introduction. - The place of Science; of Natural History; of Botany. The scope of Botany. Divisions of the Science of Botany. - Material at the disposal of the city and of the country teacher. - General aim; to compel the pupil to see through his own eyes...
...General Introduction. - The place of Science; of Natural History; of Botany. The scope of Botany. Divisions of the Science of Botany. - Material at the disposal of the city and of the country teacher. - General aim; to compel the pupil to see through his own eyes...
...course the conferences do not pretend to provide a comprehensive course in all the current topics of discussion, but they do take, to a large extent, the place of the course proposed in the Advocate. The aim of the conferences is to bring the students into contact with men qualified by their experience to speak on the questions, political and moral, which are agitating the world today. The conferences do not limit themselves to college instruction, in fact they look for speakers mostly in the outside world. In this way they afford a capital opportunity for the college to keep...