Word: aims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dinner was enlivened by songs, that of Liscomb, '91 being especially good and his hits were appreciated by an enthusiastic audience. Samuel Winslow, captain of the '85 nine, was present, as were Stearns, '82; Thayer, '85; Gage, '86 and Smith, '86-and Moore of the Scientific School.- The aim of the participants is to create a feeling among Worcester men in favor of Harvard, and it is expected that a Harvard Club will soon be started there. This banquet was the first of a series of annual dinners to be held by the Harvard men of Worcester...
...action is one that can be carried on to advantage. Among the leading movers in the society the names of Dr. Bowditch, of the Harvard Medical School, Professor Pickering, of the Observatory, Professors Royce and James and Mr. S. N. Scudder, are well-known to most of us. The aim of the society is to investigate the so-called phenomena of thought transference, apparitions and haunted houses, hypnotism, mediumistic phenomena and experimental psychology. On application to the secretary, blanks will be mailed to anyone who cares to note any observations, also instructions for experimenting. Mr. Hodgson's lecture on Monday...
Very few men realize the difficult position in which the Governing Committee of the Boat Club finds itself and how many obstacles hamper its effective administration of rowing matters. The aim of the committee is, above all things, to administer the finances wisely and economically, and, to do this, desires to work on a cash basis only...
...aim to use our columns for the encouragement of the best interests of boating at Harvard. We believe that we cannot better accomplish this end than by advocating a more careful and economical management for the future...
...satisfy the intellectual appetite. Still even this motive cannot be wholly approved, since it is selfish and tends to destroy the balance and evenness of physical development. There is yet another motive-to extend the boundaries of knowledge by the truth-seeker, but this cannot be the right aim since the object truth is unattainable and it is not right for us to try to find what we cannot reach. Truth is unattainable because what we do know as certain compared to what we do not know is insignificant...