Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Seth Low, W. A. Calkins, Dr. W. T. Harris, and Seth R. Stewart, general secretary; the officers of the Board of Trustees: President, James W. Alexander, Yale '60; Vice-Presidents, Chauncey M. Depew, Charles S. Fairchild, and W. B. Cutting, Treasurer, George T. Peabody; Secretary, Matthew J. Elgas. The aim of the society is to give those who cannot afford either the time or the expense required by a college life, the advantages of a thorough education in any branch taught at colleges. Classes are to be formed, lecture courses given, and provision made for correspondence with prominent instructors. Syllabuses...
...editor of the magazine continues to taboo short stories. His aim is apparently to make the Atlantic the medium for the publication of solid articles such as are contained in the English reviews. No American periodical today exactly corresponds to the English ones, but the Atlantic certainly is the one which most closely resembles them on account of its requirement that its articles shall be contributions to literature as well as sources of information...
...unless some wholly improbable catastrophy should befall the institution it will never be necessary to call on the profit sharers again. The Co-operative has unlimited credit, owns its own stock, and has paid all bills due. Moreover the business has been constantly widening although it is not the aim of the society to compete for the patronage of people unconnected with the University. Not a little wholesale trade has grown up through orders from western colleges and schools for goods which the society is known to keep...
...beginning of the Christianera, the Greek philosophy had grown to be extremely practical. The school of philosophers taught self-command and discipline. Its aim was personal culture. A writer on that school, Epictetus made a great point of the effect that philosophy produced on a man. The other element of the philosophy, the religious element, was beautifully set forth in the writings of Seneca. His doctrines were that God was a friend and a loving father to all. Even the most miserable of men felt God's munificence. Man was a living sluine of God. This was a very sublime...
...America. In England men graduate at about the same age as in America. There, however, most members of the more highly educated classes are rich, here they are poor. In England, consequently, an aristocratic system of education is possible; university education in America, on the other hand should aim above all to be democratic...