Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...papers, however, too often permit the overcrowding of large ideas to produce a strained effect, or obscure the clear sense of the thought. Sometimes the intense degenerates into the absurd, and the bold epithet into mere affection; this is of course, the chief danger in all college papers that aim at marked originality, and yet in these two papers is found some of the best, and nearly all of the strongest poetry written by college students...
...they train and develop men for the 'varsity glee and banjo clubs. It is absurd to say that the freshmen will keep up their club now for their own amusement, that they will practise and work a whole year only "for fun." The spring concert is the one aim of the clubs all the year, no less for the sum to be given the crew than for its pleasure. Nor is the plea for "consistency" less absurd. Why interfere with a few beneficial and harmless freshman organizations, because others which have no merit to them wish to be formed...
...fair sized audience assembled in Appleton Chapel last night to listen to the fourth Dudleian Lecture, delivered by Rev. William Elliot Griffis of Boston. The subject of the Lecture was "Ordination" and its aim was to prove that the form of ordination which has been used in New England is safe, scriptural and valid...
...fire of war, and the description of battles. Beowulf, however, is a long and thrilling tale, and told with Homeric simplicity. A deep fatalism broods over the poem, but it is counteracted by a certain manliness. The poem was composed almost wholly by one man and with one definite aim in view. Two destinct strains are felt throughout, one military, one of the sea. Always is heard the clanging of armour, but in the back ground is the unceasing roar of the sea. These legends were sung or rather chanted to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. and together with...
...advantages of such a course are obvious and have been considered at other times than this. As Geology IV aims to give us a general and so called popular knowledge of the world, - of the composition and history of the earth, the growth of matter and the development of man - so a popular course in Astronomy would aim to give us a general knowledge of the heavenly bodies, their history, so far as it is known, their relation to each other and their probable future. The Annex already offers a course in Astronomy by Professor Searle, which, being entitled Descriptive...