Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...extolled. A practical and too often a mere vulgar money-making utility seems to be its natural outcome. On the contrary the whole experience and observation of my life lead me to look with greater admiration, and an envy ever increasing, on the broadened culture which is the true aim of the university...
...ways; either by a new Literary Monthly, or by the "Advocate," which proposes to add to its size next year, and to do exactly, in quality and in quantity, the work which would be done by a Literary Monthly. Not more than one paper whose aim is to represent the best literary thought of the college, can expect sufficient financial support. The question then arises, which can fulfil this purpose best; a new Monthly, or the "Advocate" in enlarged form. We think the "Advocate" can do this for the following reasons...
...twenty-first of October next, and at intervals of one month following thereupon, the undersigned purpose to publish a magazine, with the aim of furnishing a means by which the best literary work of the college may be put into permanent form. This magazine will be called "The Harvard Literary Monthly." For a long time the need of such a magazine has been evident. While each of the present college papers is excellent in its own field, that field is necessarily a circumscribed and limited one. With all the merits of the Lampoon, the Advocate and the CRIMSON, none...
...sense to literary subjects. In the Finance Club, the Historical Club, the Philosophical Club, and the various other organizations of the college, as well as in the graduate schools, we believe that work is being done which, if written in clear and good form, is well worth publication. Our aim will be to represent the best thought of the university, as well as the best purely literary work. It may be well to add that while the Literary Monthly is founded primarily for undergraduates, we shall endeavor to publish in each issue an article by a professor or by some...
...fixed the province of government to levy a tax more injurious to some than to others. Adam Smith would give government the care of the shools, religion, and certain trade monopolies. Mill would have the degree of government interference depend on history, social condition and character of people; general aim should be at non interference. Mr. Mill is about right. Whether a state shall control a farm, a railroad, or an industry, is to be decided by the character, moral, social and political...