Word: aim
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...such wretched and lifeless work. Only one Harvard man reached second base and he was forced there by a base on balls. Repeatedly the Harvard men walked to the plate and were called out on strikes without swinging the bat. They came to the plate with the same indifferent aim that they used in walking to their places in the field, as if the game bored them or as if they considered the team that had won a series from Yale and kept Princeton and Pennsylvania from scoring as unworthy of arousing their best energies. In short, the impression they...
...proposed to expand the present department of education into a school of education as soon as the necessary funds can be secured. The plan in its general features has received the approval of President Eliot. This school, which is designed to carry on more adequately the present two-fold aim of the department, namely, the study of educational and the training of teachers, principals and superintendents, would like the College, the Scientific School and the Graduate School, be under the immediate charge of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In addition to the present work of the department, supervisors...
...Living Room of the Union on Thursday evening, March 26. The lecture, which will be open to the University, is to be held under the auspices of the Law School Political Club. This club membership in which is restricted to second and third year law men, has as its aim the encouragement of the interest of college men in municipal politics. The club was organized last February, and, besides holding meetings for its own members, plans to arrange general addresses, open to the University, by men prominent in political life. Some time in April Hon. W. H. Moody '76, Secretary...
...aim of civil service reformers, he said, is to abolish the boss system in American politics; the improvement of the civil service itself is but a by-product. The boss works through a large army of office-holders and would-be office-holders, and it is through his handling of the patronage that he controls primaries and conventions, and consequently legislation. The so-called examinations for entrance to the civil service are in the main practical tests of fitness for the various positions to be filled. There are over four hundred distinctly different kinds of examinations in the national service...
...Veilchenfresser," one of Moser's most famous plays, is a modern comedy whose aim is to satirize the levity of German officers and military circles in general. The author shows, however, that underneath the frivolous exterior, these officers have the most genuine ideals. The action of the play centres about Victor von Berndt, who is nicknamed the "Veilchenfresser," or violet eater, from his habit of sending violets to all his passing loves. Owing to the elaborate scenery which will be used, it has been found necessary to shorten the play from four to three acts...