Word: objects
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Among his other wise sayings Aristotle remarked that man is by nature a social animal; and it is in order to develop his powers as a social being that American colleges exist. The object of the undergraduate department is not to produce hermits, each imprisoned in the cell of his own intellectual pursuits, but men fitted to take their places in the community and live in contact with their fellow...
...transitional nature of existing conditions is seen again in the absence, among instructors as well as students, of fixed principles by which the choice of courses of study ought to be guided. It is seen more markedly still, in the lack of any accepted view of the ultimate object of a college education...
...been assailed by many discordant voices, all of them earnest, most of them well-informed, and speaking in every case with a tone of confidence in the possession of the true solution. One theory, often broached under different forms, and more or less logically held, is that the main object of the college should be to prepare for the study of a definite profession, or the practice of a distinct occupation; and that the subjects pursued should, for the most part, be such as will furnish the knowledge immediately useful for that end. But if so, would...
...problems that has arisen of late in the University is that of Memorial Hall. It has lost money heavily and the question of closing it has arisen. It was determined, however, to continue the dining hall. Eating together is one of the best ways to make friends. The main object of the hall is to afford an opportunity for men to eat together...
...Prospect Union will open its nineteenth year of work in Cambridge next Monday evening at 744 Massachusetts avenue. The Union is an educational and social club for men, conducted by wage-earners and by students, and teachers from Harvard University. Its object is to extend to working-men opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education, through evening classes and lectures, and to bring into mutually helpful contact working-men, students and teachers...