Word: aims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard has the advantage of retaining all but two of her last year's nine, including the "battery." Nichols and Allen, and four of her best batsmen. In selecting new men, the aim seems to be to look to the batting qualities rather than the fielding, and it is not unlikely that some of the men who played last year, but showed weakness at the bat, will be replaced by others who have more "slugging" abilities. It is, therefore, probable that the nine will keep up its reputation of being the heaviest batting team in the association. Reliance will...
...duty of our professors is to stimulate and guide the work which we must do for our selves, to show us our apparatus; and when we consider this apparatus which the college provides for our mental exercise, the library stands first - if indeed it be granted that the aim of a liberal education is to get a basis for culture, to learn how we may most surely get at "the best which has been thought and said in the world." For books are the repositories of this wisdom of the past; they are the keys to the treasure-houses...
...even generally prevalent here. The members of the committee would be the first to deny the truth of such an inference. The practice exists - to a comparatively slight extent, to be sure - but still it exist; and as long as that is the case, it should be the aim of every true Harvard man to find some remedy which will remove it. It is absurd to shut our eyes to the evil because we believe it is less here than elsewhere, and to look for its disappearance if we refuse to consider it, simply because the discussion offends our fine...
...from stopping the discussion let us continue it until the practice stands revealed in all its disgusting details, and the whole body of students unite in branding the "cribber" as unfit for the society of Harvard men, whether his aim be forty per cent. or seventy-five...
...recent pamphlet from the pen of Samuel Brearly of New York, several of the courses now given at Harvard are selected for criticism, and among others English VI. This course, instead of furnishing food for adverse criticism, should receive favorable comment. Its aim is not, perhaps, to make statesmen of all who take part in the discussions. Many of the questions are deep and as yet unsettled. They are the vital questions, however, of the politics of to-day. English VI. affords an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the current literature that has reference to these subjects of debate...