Word: aims
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...young man became strongly affected with atheistic tendencies and undertook after a course of very serious and extensive studies to spread his doctrines through lecturing. Professor Adler has gathered about him a large congregation of eminently intelligent people in New York City. Whereas, it was his original ambition and aim to call into life a new religious order if atheists may properly be so called, the assembly that meets to hear him every Sunday morning in New York consists mainly of liberal people with distinctly agnostic tendencies whose chief interests are however centered on improvement of the social order...
About 150 people assembled in Sanders Theatre last evening to attend the meeting of the Indian Rights Association. The Rev. Mr. Lougfellow called the meeting to order and read the statement of the association. Its aim is to investigate the home life of the Indians on the reservation. The most important things accomplished so far have been the passing of the Dawes bill and the defeat of the Sioux reservation bill. The association publishes an annual statement which will be sent to any one on receipt of postage...
...October. 1886, the Conference Francaise was organized at Harvard. The aim of the founder was to form a club which should afford practice in speaking French and create an interest in the political situation in France. The society is not formed of students solely. It has the names of Professor Bocher and Assistant-Professor Cohn. Mr. Saunderson and Asst. Profs. Hart and Taussig on its rolls. The first officers of the society were as follows: President, L. McK. Garrison, '88; vice-president, M. D. Mitchell, '87; secretary, F. D. Kalapothakes, '88. It is intended to keep the number of members...
...necessary to recruit the library staff. Hence a special department has been instituted at Columbia College in New York, called the school of "Library Economy" which is under the direction of Melville Dewey, the secretary of the American Library Association. They have teachers specially provided for instruction, and they aim to secure a wide recognition of different library methods and principles by providing lectures during the year from some of the principal American librarians. The class is made up of both men and women, and I am told they find opportunities for their graduates easily, but mainly in narrow spheres...
...paper is a college paper and should retain its character as such, and not aim to be a cheap copy of a paper that has no more originality or excellence than is found in Life...