Word: aims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...takes, as long as he is not a round egg in a square hole. Be the man who, when he is told to do a thing, goes and does it. Have temperance, perseverance, self-control. Remember Horace's "Ne cede malis," and Holmes' verses beginning "Stick to your aim...
...purpose of the school is to give a complete general view of all the subjects, both of internal and external public polity, from the threefold stand point of history, law and philosophy. Its prime aim is therefore the development of all the branches of the political sciences. Its secondary and practical objects...
...seen that while Harvard offers most of the courses given in this school of political science, she does it with a different aim, to give a general scholastic training. But it seems as if Harvard could, without much difficulty, make out a system of instruction by selecting and arranging courses from the college and the Law School which should cover the work done in a school like that at Columbia...
...Notoriety in Art" by Mr. Herkomer, professor of fine arts at Oxford. It is gratifying to see that, at a time when so many other interests are forced upon our minds, and when we would be most likely to forget the claims of an art, which does not aim solely at practical ends, attention is called to the department of fine arts in a way at once pleasing and elevating. Mr. Herkomer enjoys a high reputation as a scholarly critic, and is a man of refined tastes. Anything that he will be led to say cannot fail to interest those...
...national capital, where is the center of administration for all the higher grades of service, in order that the bulk of its faculty could be drawn from those actually engaged in the public administration; and its courses ought to be arranged with the greatest possible attention to definiteness of aim, and to practicalness of method, in order to be saved from any danger of doctrinairism...