Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...preacher Phillips Brooks was most conspicuous, for here he was unique. He did not copy, he could not be copied. He entered little into questions of doctrine; his aim was to open the windows of man's heart, and leave it better than he found it. Though not pretending to the art of elocution, he held all men's attention, and for that all elocution strives. He could preach because he liked to preach. Whenever he spoke, whether to high or low, he always ennobled his hearers. He cared not for creed or doctrinal controversy so long as he could...
...this now makes the paper a regular publication of undergraduate doings and sentiments it gives us great pleasure to welcome it as such. It is a bright paper, well conducted and well printed and apparently covering everything of interest in the university. Judging from its past work it will aim to take an independent position in regard to college matters, which is what every college paper should do provided that it do so fair-mindedly and not hastily. There is every reason to expect, therefore, that the University News will soon rank among the best of the college papers...
...problem of justification by faith is to make a man right who is wrong. We have seen that a man cannot make himself right by a direct aim at right. The law of indirectness forces him to use power outside of himself and these powers he must find in some great personality From the example and relationship of this personality he can fill his soul with great aims, high aspirations and can become the embodiment of a great purpose with absolutely no room left for considation of self...
...return. Second come those who seek to pay their way, and will receive nothing they do not earn. They do not realize that they nevertheless live on the sacrifice of others, And last are those who try to put love and sympathy in their work, and whose greatest aim is to do more for others than is done for them. If we all work in this way, with our object to do good to others and to become masters of ourselves, we may have no fear of beggary...
...kind and amount of work that must be accomplished by their pupils to it them for college work. Such a condition of affairs is hurtful to the best interests of the community, for it results in a forced and unnatural growth of a student's mental faculties. Schools then aim to prepare pupils with the object only of getting them into college. No matter how insufficient may be their elementary teaching or how limited and inadequate the practical education obtained from it, provided that sufficient knowledge is crammed into them to enable them to pass, by written examinations the requirements...