Word: aimed
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...aim of the new work is to give a clear, analytical and scientific exposition of the game, as will be seen from the table of contents...
...primary aim of all our great institutions is not to prepare a man to fight the battle of life, and come out well endowed with this world's goods, but to cultivate the mind and raise the plane of civilization. A great university stands for truth. Here the scholar is met who has a real quest in life, from which he will turn for nothing. The scholar is the man who buys the truth and sells it not. No price is too great if only the truth is obtained, and no reward is asked...
...game as thoroughly disgusted with the spirit in which the undergraduates applauded the playing. All idea of fair play seemed to them to have been lost in the desire to win, the errors of Harvard's opponents being loudly cheered and attempts being made to spoil their pitcher's aim. This account seems to us exaggerated, but there must have been some trace of such a spirit at the game to impress several persons sitting at different parts of the field. If any such spirit should be shown on Holmes Field this afternoon it will mar the whole game...
...proposed system would injuriously affect the aim and direction of work.- (a) It would cause a larger proportion of the work to be done with the examination in view.- (1) The fear and thought of examinations would be more constantly present to the student's mind.- (x) Examination would be always impending: N. S. Shaler in Atlantic, Ixviii, p. 96 (July, 1891); E. A. Freeman in Nineteenth Century, xxiv, p. 641 (Nov., 1888).- (b) Such increase of work for examinations would be a great evil.- (1) It would tend to destroy originality and individuality: Max Muller, in Nineteenth Century, xxiv...
...Gray '96, "Aim of University Training," Cardinal Newman...