Word: aims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comparatively uneventful existence of the Harvard Polo Club led many to believe that its main aim was to furnish sport for its members, and that nothing was to be expected from it in the way of match games with other clubs. While it is true that the polo interest at Cambridge has been confined to a small circle, yet the college cannot but be gratified at the victories won by the polo team in its games of last summer, and the story of its achievements will not prove uninteresting reading, even at this late...
SOPHOMORETHEMES.Theme III will be due on Thursday, November 12. Subject: A critical estimate of some good author, or a review of some important work of a good author. The aim should be to produce, as far as the limits allow, a finished piece of critical work. This theme will be distributed for criticism to the class on Friday. November 13, from 2 to 4 o'clock, in Sever 5. It is important that every one should come to get a theme to criticise. On Thursday, Nov. 19, each student will deposit in the theme box in Sever 3 the theme...
...above mentioned dangers of self-satisfaction and of mental backsliding are not, it is true, very great for those intending to study in any of the professions, law, medicine, or ministry, or even for those who aim to an active business life, or at teaching. The prospective professional men will find a continued mental activity in their professional schools, the business men in their counting-houses, and the teachers in their school rooms. But they are not all the men that a college graduates. Where are those who intend being higher than mere teachers, who aim at professorships? And where...
...pains or expense will be spared in collecting news from other colleges as well as our own; moreover, everything which appears in the paper we intend shall be authoritative - the reports of athletic contests will be written by experts, and the scores will be official, and we shall always aim at strict accuracy in all news matters. Our columns are always open to receive communications from students and faculty, and it is our desire that this privilege be availed of to a greater extent than it has hitherto. Inasmuch as the paper will contain, in addition to its news...
...ought to make. To "grind" is, it is true very laudable, but to grind all the time is not so. Grind some of course, but read also, converse, be sociable, take recreation, above all don't let books control the mind in all its active hours, think yourself and aim at some originality...