Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important part of this corrective training" he continued, "is that work is mental rather than physical, the instructor taking advantage of every opportunity to stimulate interest in good posture. The most we hope to accomplish with a majority of the men is first, to have them recognize that body mechanics is an important part in the health of an individual; second, to have them get the feel of what a good position is; and third, to familiarize them with types of exercise that may be used to help effect correction...
...declared that the House must vote the money to enforce its immigration ideas. An additional $1,238,000 was promptly voted to the department of labor for the Immigration Bureau. This appropriation does not affect the Immigration Law; it merely provides for its stricter enforcement. Its purpose is to accomplish by enforcement what Senator Willis desired to do by new legislation...
...this. It has been necessary for each of the controversial parties to explain its position repeatedly with regard to different phases or indeed, irrevelant matters. There seems to be little cooperation; and still less mutual understanding. Undoubtedly, the question is one which deserves much thought and deliberation. But to accomplish anything, there must be coordination and readiness to ignore trifles as well Endless quibbling and evasion serve only to pass the time...
Such action seems to imply that the American college is falling to accomplish its avowed purpose, or at least that the liberal attitude is suffering under the present complicated organization of collegiate life and instruction. If this indictment is true it calls for more than a description of educational utopias. What is needed is not further definition of aims but practical methods of achieving them. In part these means must be determined by the endowments, resources, and charters of the individual colleges but to a significant degree they can be fixed by the opinions and actions of the undergraduate bodies...
...year grades, seems to indicate with no little degree of certainty that probation has not aided many men in raising their scholastic rank. Certainly it was of no marked advantage to the fifty men who were dropped. And to continue to wield an instrument whose discipline does not accomplish the purpose intended is paternalism in excessive and unscientific doses...