Word: intending
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spirit of the men. Whatever the cause, the fact remains that not enough interest has been shown to carry through successfully three winter meetings each year. The seemingly logical solution of the difficulty is the plan of the Association to have two meetings instead of one. They intend to strike out all the lessimportant and uninteresting events, and give more attention to making the others successful. They hope in this way to centralize their effors and get a large number of contestants in each event...
...more popular degrees with distinction; but it also points to a tendency in college students to devote their energies less to specializing than to general education. The President states that the Faculty are in doubt about the expediency of men trying for honors, except in cases where such students intend to teach...
...increase, but diminishes relatively to the number of students. The natural inference is that very few students wish to specialize, or that the requirements for honors are unreasonable. Even in the Faculty there are two opinions as to the advisability of seeking honors except by young men who intend to teach...
...worst features in the problem that confronts us is the extreme difficulty of separating those who wish to work and earn an honest living from those who are nothing but "dead beats" and intend to remain such. For this very reason it is hard to interest people in the poor. It rarely happens that a poor person who is known to deserve help fails...
...amount of work to be done is no more, we cannot see why the present method, is not the better. It is not right to force a majority of the students to complete their college work in a short time, in order to influence the work of those who intend to enter a professional school. By the present method the old institutions are maintained, and, with a simple act of the executive, all the proposals of the new method can be accomplished...