Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cast, generally speaking, is most successful in the Texan manners, and Miss Walsh in particular displays charming abilities as "Bossy" Brander. Mr. Murphy is amusing as the cattle king, and Messrs. Stanley, Cullington and Finlay perform their parts successfully. The Texas Steer, despite its title, has a higher aim and a more sensible plot than most of the author's other works...
...chief interest of the meeting to me was centered in the President's report. The Club sustains two funds, a charity fund and a scholarship fund. The aim of the former is to rescue worthy Harvard graduates from financial emergency. For this fund, as the President happily remarked, there is little use, since but few Harvard graduates are at the same time worthy and penniless...
...parts. The crying need in this country is for the development of the "modern scholar" in the true sense of the word. By means of the elective system and of advanced courses, Harvard is unabled to bring about in its graduate students ripe thought and well developed scholarships. The aim is attained by a vital and manly culture which enables each man to make use of his education as a means of entering into the active life of the nation at large by actual contact in public life and by conducting the work done in minor colleges...
Professor Royce, in closing, points out that the aim, is not to diminish the work required of a student but to encourage preparatory schools to anticipate what now forms the early part of the college course, so that if they are willing to send a man to college more advanced by half a year, Harvard is willing to compromise by giving him the other half year, that is by reducing the work from eighteen to sixteen courses. The closing thought is: "Harvard wants to produce scholars...
...descriptive pamphlet of the courses in Geology has just been issued. The aim of these courses is to afford a succession of studies of a geological nature which may properly occupy the greater part of the time of the student for at least four years, provided he intends to make a special pursuit of either general or economic geology. At the same time, courses numbered 1, 2, 4, 4a and 8, and Chemistry C and 2, are intended to serve the purpose of those who wish to acquire a knowledge of the outlines of the science for the sake...