Word: aims
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...department of Philosophy announces a new course for the second term. This course, Philosophy *23, on the Theory of Knowledge, is to be given by Dr. H. M. Sheffer '05, and is open to graduates and to qualified undergraduates. The aim of the course is the logical reduction to their lowest terms of important epistemological problems and issues. Students intending to elect this course should consult the instructor at their earliest convenience, as it will be open only to students with special qualifications and no one will be admitted without permission...
Because these men have changed so successfully from one line of endeavor to another, we should not make the mistake of believing that greatness depends simply on indecisive waiting. All of these men early in life made a definite aim for themselves and worked hard to reach it. They gave up their old ambition only when they could substitute...
...society will have three classes of members: honorary members--professors, instructors and curators of any department in the University connected with natural research; associate members--graduates not now connected with the University, but interested in natural history; active members--graduate and undergraduate students of the University. Its aim is to stimulate interest in natural research and to bring together the many subordinate departments of science which has been greatly split up by specialization...
...that restricted the comprehension of the new art, the new politics, the new freedom. Study is alien to the college; it would intrude on time that might be worthily spent in fashionable activities and no modern faculty would for an instant encourage it. If athletics is not the first aim of college, why is the football coach paid three times, four times, the salary of the professor of Greek...
...result the few non-educational societies which aim at a recognition of learning are unofficial. The American Academy of Arts and Letters, for example, although its honorary president is the President of the United States, and although its publications are printed at governmental expense, is in no way responsible to or connected with the government. So the Academy can rely only on popular appreciation of its high purpose. Its efforts should appeal to all patriotic Americans who desire that our savants should command the same respect as those of foreign countries. One might expect that this effort would arouse...