Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Throughout this work it has been the aim of the committee only "to emphasize the principles which should govern all secondary school programmes, and to show how the main recommendations of the several conferences may be carried out in a variety of feasible programmes...
...Three immutable "facts" were laid down concerning the "constituents of being;" first, that they were "transitory;" secondly, "miserable;" third, "lacking in the ego." As the doctrine of faith and works may be considered the characteristic of Christ's religion, so knowledge was the basis of Buddha's teaching. The aim of life was to get rid of existence; existence was a simple illusion; therefore knowledge was what was most needed...
...characteristic feature is that it is almost entirely in black and white. Americans have no time to learn to be masters of color. What is needed for that is long periods of doing nothing but absorbing the beauty of nature, studying sunsets and color effects. What all modern illustrators aim at is "tone," that is to say, effects in black and white...
...they are being made with a view to making clear the relation of physical training to the development of quick and accurate motions and of well balanced bodies. The idea is to find out by comparison what sorts of exercise demand as a pre-requisite the most accurate mental aim and the quickest motor response and also what sorts of exercise develope these to the greatest degree. If the tests made show that with tennis, fencing, boxing and football there go varying degrees of quickness and accuracy, tables can be prepared and statistics made out which will be very interesting...
...athletic contests are so fascinating that the students have no mind to move against them; it is well, then, that older heads have interfered, with a set of rules which will bring athletics down to their proper level. The sooner the students learn that athletics are not the chief aim of the University and that the University is not small or great as it loses or wins athletic contests, the sooner they will show sound sense in the matter. The new rules will preclude the possibility of a man's coming here simply for athletics and when...