Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Tickets of the value of three cents are on sale at the office of the secretary and are sold in any quantity. None but members can purchase tickets. These are given up to the attendants in charge of the various departments whenever use is made of the latter. The aim is to have the fees for the use of the baths bowling alleys, etc., about sixty per cent of what is charged elsewhere...
CRIMSON CAFE DINING ROOMS.- We try to make people pleased with what they eat, and our meats and vegetables are especially fresh and wholesome. For meals cooked to order our charge is $7.00 per week; for regular first-class board $5.50 per week. Our special aim is to please the students and give them good wholesome home-cooked food...
...proposed club, except so far as the project commends itself. What they are trying to get at now is what the members of the University actually think of the plan. The latter has been well stated by a graduate interested in the movement in these words: "We aim simply at giving a definite amount of convenience for a definite annual sum; we don't dream of manufacturing sociability; but we believe that if eight hundred or more men find a University club worth ten dollars a year to them, its social influence will work unconsciously-as it should...
Professor West closed his lecture by reading three chapters of the Philobiblon to illustrate the general character and aim of the work...
...announcement of subjects for the Bowdoin prize dissertations will be eagerly welcomed by a considerable number of men whose competitive instincts seek an intellectual field for their exercise. Though the ultimate aim of such prizes must be to stimulate an active interest in the various lines of study, yet the distinction of winning a prize is in itself a perfectly commendable incentive to intellectual effort. It would be well if we had more prize competitions than we do. If that were the case, and the standards were kept high, the problem of securing more general recognition to scholarly attainment, which...