Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...America. Such a course seems to us to be one well worth considering, for it would be interesting to many students in English literature and, moreover, there are doubtless students to whom it would be an advantageous and necessary training. A half course would answer the purpose, its aim being the study of the speeches of English and American orators and statesmen, their construction and effectiveness; a comparison of the methods of each - a practical study, in other words, of the theory of oratory. There will be students for such a course as there are students now for the courses...
...matter of the Christmas trip was talked over and certain points were decided on provisionally. Permission for the trip has not yet been obtained from the Faculty, but the cities talked over were as follows. New York, Philadelphia or Washington, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Chicago, Buffalo and Albany. The aim will be constantly kept in mind of shortening the distances between the cities, thus reducing the wear and tear of the journey to a minimum. The active work of rehearsing in the Glee Club will be begun next week. The officers expect an excellent club...
...class oration and ode are sober and more or less pretentious affairs, while the poem and ivy oration are directly the opposite. Both aim to give, in a humorous way, the history of the class, and the ivy oration, although the most recent addition to the custom of the day, is the gem of the day. This position grew out of the old custom that when a president went out of office the class of that year should plant an evergreen to his memory and sometimes an ivy was substituted. While the planting went on it was the custom...
...word "Commencement" means the end of one life and the beginning of another and broader one. University graduates are to be leaders in the state and so servants of it: and this public service is the highest aim which the students can have. Such service may be of many kinds, but along it, whatever it may be, are to come the highest prizes in life. The true leader, the true servant of the public, must be finally a full-grown man, and no man is full-grown into whose life Christianity has not entered. Though Christianity has not achieved...
...aim of the course is to give to those men who have shown some talent for English composition a better opportunity for developing their style than is given in English...