Word: aims
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ideal, a worthier one in our opinion, is that any article of any kind is not worth publishing simply for the sake of giving practice and encouragement to writers. The production of one undergraduate magazine which should represent the combined efforts of all students ambitious to write, which should aim at something beyond the goal of bare self-support, and, most of all, whose various departments should offer something worth reading to every man in the University, is the highest aim possible for undergraduate literary enterprise...
...should be the aim of every educational institution to equip a student with all the mental processes it can, and thus permanently develop his breadth of view, rather than fill his mind with minute facts soon to be forgotten...
Coach Pieper emphasized the attitude which the men should take toward athletics. It is the aim of the team to win, but to win only in a sportsmanlike manner. Furthermore, the candidates should not become discouraged if they are not at the head of those trying for their particular position. A strong team can be developed only when each man puts forth his best effort, even though he be the poorest and most inexperienced of the candidates...
...aim of the entrance examinations is not to test the candidate's knowledge of facts, but to examine his intellectual power. The examiners try to ask, not "How much do you know"? but "Are you qualified to profit by instruction in Harvard College"? As a means of determining the extent of this qualification, a considerably smaller set of requirements would be more efficient; for at the average age of candidates for admission, the attempt to cover the present field is ordinarily attended by a parrot-like grasp of unrelated details, but by no real mastery or assimilation of the subjects...
...intention of the men who made the rule to perpetrate such absurdities. They intended to keep students from over-exertion in athletics, and incidentally, by keeping the balance even on one side, to bring athletic pursuits into proper swing with studies. That they missed this aim in part, the trial of the rule has shown...