Word: aims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...terms college and university. "The name university," he says, "ought to represent an institution where not rudiments but sciences are taught by specialists, and where the learners are responsible young men who have chosen one or more of these sciences for a life work." But the college should aim to give a general preparatory culture to boys and youths, graduating them at the age of from eighteen to twenty. "It should be an institution for training the mind and disciplining the character, and should not aim to be an institution of learning, in the broad sense of the term...
...those who wished could escape the terrors of examination by a simple but effective remedy. Those men who were willing to do a certain prescribed amount of collateral reading were excused attendance at the ordeal which the rest had to endure. Indeed, we believe it has generally been the aim of the university at Ann Arbor, by oral examinations and such substitutes as this, to mitigate the evils of long written examinations. Other institutions have tried various other plans, with more or less to commend them. In some, what seems theoretically to be the most rational method...
This morning we publish the initial number of the HARVARD DAILY HERALD. It is our aim and purpose to make the paper straight-forward, just and independent, giving impartially praise or dispraise wherever due. We shall make bold to attack any measure that appears, after mature deliberation, to be harmful to the best interests of the students or university...
...natural law of elasticity, I suppose, - I was unwound from that post like a flash, and shot, meteor-like, off into space. There I came in contact with several spokes, and a piece of the backbone, and in company we continued our perilous precipitation, with great accuracy of aim, to a remote corner of the hall. I wearily opened my eyes, expecting to see the Derby and dimples bending tenderly over me; but no Derby and dimples were there; instead, I heard a sweet, melodious voice floating down the hall: "If he goes at it in this...
...literature a foremost place in our curriculum, - not to encourage a faithful critical investigation of the common speech of two great Saxon nations. That speech is surely as worthy of attention as is Hebrew or Sanskrit; and its demands need not even interfere with the one end and aim of life, - a thorough knowledge of the noble dialect of Athens...