Word: aime
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Women, the war, athletics, and personalities comprise the range of subjects. Among the first named, virtue is apparently unknown. The weaker sex is subject to slandering remarks whose sole aim is to fill a gap in the conversation. When the talk wanders to the war, someone says "I hope those damned ------ get licked," and the subject is closed. Even on athletics where the interest is keenest, desultory remarks and blasphemies on Yale are the main element. Interspersing everything are biting personalities on another's physical or mental qualities. A tone of affected cynicism crowns the whole...
...members of the squad will be organized as the Harvard "Rovers" this fall and play a series of about twelve games with local semi-professional teams. While the "Rovers" will be made up of players on the University squad, it will not be a University team and does not aim to represent the University...
...week conference of superintendents of schools of small towns will be held here from June 28 to July 3. This conference will aim to promote more effective school supervision in Massachusetts...
...this is the general aim of the laboratory it is not strange that startling "popular" discoveries have not taken place there. Nevertheless, several important ones have been made, whose significance can only be estimated. Most notable among these is the discovery that what has heretofore been considered the unit of the universe, the "element," may in itself be a complex substance. This was brought out in the determination of the atomic weight of "radio-active" lead, when specimens of this element were found to have a perfectly definite atomic weight which differed from that of other specimens of ordinary lead...
...regret, that one reads the last installment of the brilliant series of informal essays from the pen of the retiring editor. In his farewell, which closes the series, Mr. Thayer says of these much discussed articles: "These papers have never had either official, semi-official, or editorial significance. The aim of each has simply been to set forth the opinions or fantasies of the individual who wrote it." As such, they have been eminently successful, for they have always been one of the distinctive features of the magazine...