Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opened Gen. Sherman was in command of the western forces, which lay encamped several miles in front of Chattanooga. The Confederates, with a somewhat smaller force, had prepared to block any forward move and lay at Dalton, in northern Georgia. Gen. Joe Johnston was their leader. Sherman's aim was to capture Atlanta in Johnston's rear. With this aim in view he approached the enemy. All the resources of art and nature had combined to aid the latter. Mountains and entrenchment's strengthened his position. Sherman threatened the Confederate rear and Johnston retreated to Resaca. Here a battle...
...possession was of vital importance to the Confederacy. Important to them it was the goal which Rosecrans must reach before he could hope to penetrate into the heart of the South. To aid him, General Burnside was moving on Knoxville, a little further north, with Chattanooga as his final aim...
...enough, and fitted for all sorts and conditions of men, whatever their pursuits may be. 'An intelligent man,' says Plato, 'will prize those studies which shall result in his soul getting soberness, righteousness and wisdom, and will disregard the rest.' I cannot consider that a bad description of the aim of education, and of the motives which should govern us in the choice of studies, whether we are preparing ourselves for a hereditary seat in the English House of Lords or for the pork trade in Chicago. [Matthew Arnold, in the "Manhattan" for April...
...rarest purity and learning, most vast and accurate. the value of a residence at a great university lies not alone in the opportunities offered for the acquisition of learning, but in the surroundings. When one is constantly thrown in contact with a circle of men whose only aim is to know the best the world can offer, he can not fail, however thoughtless he may be, to be influenced in the direction of good. It is this circle of the older professors at Harvard that makes us fell proud of our university and it is to their personality that...
...body and the students and the usefulness of the college is greatly impaired. So it seems clear that, in a case like this, where the students are so directly affected, their desires ought to have a good deal of weight in determining the result. To ignore them and to aim for a higher moral standard regardless of consequences would be to get rid of one evil, and at the same time to invite a worse one-chronic discontent among the young men. If anything further is done in the matter would it not be the part of wisdom and prudence...