Word: aimed
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...changes wrought in the college have weakened the old solidarity and unity of aim, they have let in light and air. They have given us a freedom of movement needed for further progress. May we not say of the extreme elective system what Edmond Sherer said of democracy; that it is but one stage in an irresistible march toward an unknown goal? Progress means change, and every time of growth is a transitional era; but in a peculiar degree the present state of the American college bears the marks of a period of transition. This is seen in the comparatively...
Even persons who do not share this view of a professional aim have often urged that in order to save college education in the conditions that confront us we must reduce its length. May we not feel that the most vital measure for saving the college is not to shorten its duration, but to ensure that it shall be worth saving? Institutions are rarely murdered; they meet their end by suicide. They are not strangled by their natural environment while vigorous: they die because they have outlived their usefulness, or fail to do the work that the world wants done...
...aim of the Social Service Committee has been to increase its usefulness in the University. Early in October pamphlets were issued containing 21 pages of information in regard to social service in Boston and Cambridge, and sent to all men who expressed on their registration cards a willingness to undertake philanthropic work. By this means many men were brought into touch with social service who otherwise would have known nothing of it. The committee has met regularly during the year at informal sessions in the Directors' Room at Memorial Hall. Its activities have been carried on under the direction...
...making choice among the different works of a great author the aim will be to take the author's most characteristic work or that one which will be most inteligible to the people of today, or that which has proved to be the most influential...
Although our primary aim in advocating the abolition of competitions for managerships is negative--avoiding unfairness to competitors and doing away with athletic subscriptions--the change would not be without its positive advantages. There would be a distinct gain from the fact that men abler and more representative than those ordinarily attracted by a competition, would be available. In every class there are a certain number of men, whose executive ability has been tested in other connections, whose personality has given them prominence; men too busy to undergo a long, tedious competition, but who would perform gladly and excellently...