Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...chiefly helpless and hopeless. But that is an entire misunderstanding of its scope and possibilities. It is not merely care of needy persons. It looks largely to remedy and prevention. It means the use of scientific methods by the forces of charity, neighborliness, civic responsibility. It involves statesmanship in aim and method. Such conceptions of social work should appeal to young men and women of ability...
...Harvard's glory shall be our aim...
...main reason for these changes, as set forth in the report of the committee, is that the classes are now so large that men of considerable intellectual force and wide interests are often crowded out by men whose sole aim is study. Grades have ceased to be in every case a just statement of a man's intellectual worth. Hence a larger membership, and more freedom of choice are necessary. That this freedom may be exercised intelligently methods for a careful examination of each candidate's claims to election must be arranged. This is made possible by the plan...
...aim of the League will be to look up the records of candidates for office in the city of Cambridge at the coming municipal election. It will be absolutely impartial in its aim, the object being to make the voters of the city as thoroughly acquainted as possible with the qualifications of the candidates of all parties...
...Good Government League of Cambridge would like to enlist the services of members of the University in looking up the records of the candidates for office in the city of Cambridge at the coming municipal election. The work is absolutely impartial in its aim, the object being to make the voters of the city as thoroughly acquainted as possible with the qualifications of the candidates of all parties. Members of the University who regard Cambridge as their home, or who have acquired a legal residence here, may be willing to enlist in the Good Government League's work...