Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...throughout the land is highly defective, is proved by the success of the reforms inaugurated by Harvard, which declare as their basis the determination of the student to acquire at a university that knowledge and self-dependence which will enable him to complete his education in after years. The aim of the university, therefore, should be not to give a young man an education which is impossible, but so to interest him in the great problems of existence that he will be willing to give whatever leisure he may have in after life to the task of self-education...
...change in the character of Socialism. From being mere cries for freedom and other abstractions, it has become now a system of definite working organizations. There is still the old cry for equality of rights and privileges (not for absolute equality of property); but Socialism's most sober aim is the preservation of all variety in talent, ability, etc. Inheritance is opposed, as giving the rich an unfair advantage, as giving the rich an unfair advantage, encouraging quarrels, and idleness, and vice. Let every man have what he earns, no more. Society should not be based on money...
...applicable to it than to any of its contemporaries. But strange to say, the apparently proper order of things is exactly reversed, and while all the other publications are called "literary," the Harvard publication is not so called. Of course names are of little importance. Still, that the chief aim of our Harvard magazine thus far has been to be literary can hardly be disputed. It may be a question as to whether a college publication should aim at being anything more than literary; but for ourselves we would gladly see in what is supposed to be the best work...
...office to discuss, we believe that the mental and intellectual deserve note. It cannot be denied that there exists at Harvard, and probably at all colleges, a spirit of indifference for general excellence. Men come to college to study, and perhaps do study most faithfully, but if their one aim is to make themselves learned, then their courses at college are not thorough successes. Every man should seek both to bring profit to himself and to give it to others; the double motive is the only complete motive. Beyond doubt in this fact we find the strongest argument...
Sophomore theme III will be due on Thursday, Nov. 12. Subject: A critical estimate of some good author, or a review of some important work of a good author. The aim should be to produce, as far as the limits allow, a finished piece of critical work. This theme will be distributed for criticism to the class on Friday, Nov. 13. from 2 to 4 p. m. in Sever 5. It is important that every one should come to get a theme to criticise. On Thursday, Nov. 19, each student will deposit in the theme-box in Sever...