Word: objective
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...view of life that is also widely held, though rarely so frankly stated. This view can be given in a few sentences. The business of a man's life is happiness, which, if not equivalent to, is at least entirely dependent on, success. The attainment of some final object, whatever it is, is thus the great requisite in his life; and, success being insured, the higher the object he seeks, the greater his happiness, it being always kept in mind that no failure is allowed, unless he would feel that he has lived in vain. The moral...
...that this author uses the word, be just the thing not to be desired, and a feeling of failure, notwithstanding the work of a lifetime, be the best proof of a faith worth having? To quote once more from the author of "Success" "There can be no more melancholy object than an unsuccessful man, one who confesses that his life has been a failure." Is it not more melancholy to see a man who has so far forgotten the boundless hopes of his boyhood that he dies with the feeling that he is a successful man, - that the little money...
...four courses in Chemistry we would advise the student to study well his tastes before making his selection, for the courses differ materially in object. Sophomore chemistry gives a good average knowledge of the province of ordinary inorganic chemistry. While it gives him a little practical and experimental work, it takes him a step into the field of theory and gives him a foretaste of its higher branches. The laboratory work is confined to the study of the most important elements and acids. Junior qualitative analysis is mostly a laboratory course, requiring some manipulation and a fair memory. It consists...
...object of the rule is, of course, to prevent a student from deferring an examination on slight pretexts, for the purpose of attaining a higher mark than he feels able to get at the specified time. The belief that this rule will rarely ever do an injustice, by affecting such as are absolutely incapacitated from attendance on examination on account of severe sickness, is based on the experience of the last five years, that but one Senior has, during that time, been absent from his annuals. It is inferred that valid reasons for absence cannot be more numerous...
...small French Canadian settlement manages to support itself and a few ponies. Little carts are the common vehicles for these rough roads, although we sometimes meet the luxurious bumping-board to remind us of New England. The natives seem to rank among the lowest types of humanity, their chief object in living being the eating of pork or fat of any kind, the drinking of vile whiskey, and the smoking of worse tobacco. One accomplishment they have, however, - a wonderful skill in poling. One man stands in the bow, and one in the stern, and with marvelous dexterity they push...