Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Today marks the beginning of "Liberty Bond Week" for the University, in which the committee of eight captains already appointed and teams of five men under each will begin their work. Their aim will be to carry on a publicity campaign by means of banners and streamers and to thoroughly canvass the University to solicit subscriptions to the new government loan. This measure has been prompted by the evident necessity of universal response to this movement throughout the country, and especially in the colleges which have already lost so many men on account of active participation in government service...
...Allies justified in stooping to this policy, but the blood of their murdered non-combatants calls for action, not the action of mere vengeance, as would men of other races and other character, but action for protection. If the Germans have been carrying on their raids with the settled aim of keeping aeroplanes at home for purposes of defense, then reprisals will equalize the military advantage, and maybe even outweigh it, as the Allies now have more machines than their foes. If, on the other hand, the Germans' air raids are a mere exhibition of frightfulness, if they are simple...
...Songkla, Sp., the next speaker, defined the aim of foreigners in coming to Harvard as being to study America and Americans as "live specimens", to enrich themselves by the exchange of ideas, and to bring forth the motto of the club "Above all nations is humanity...
...University Register will be issued this year as in previous years in spite of the fact that many of its editors have been called into government service. No date for its appearance has been set as it will again be the aim of the editors rather to delay publication so as to insure an accurate and valuable book than to issue an inaccurate one within a short time. It is hoped, however, that it will appear by December 1, as last year...
...give the message that international law is not of the past, and to interpret to no small degree the present policies of belligerent and neutral states, is in large measure the aim of the courses given in international law this year. One short hour's talk from a specialist would probably convince the most aseptically of students of the folly of his thoughts. But should words fall; let him elect one of these courses and speedily discover that he was dealing with a very lively corpse indeed...