Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...occasional giggle, which we need to have on hand when we are communing with this British enigma. His whole purpose seems to be to convince us that whether truth is an actuality or not we ought at least to think, and that a lot. Stimulating influence and laudable aim...
...college with 28 straight nationalities and an additional lot of hyphenates ought to be as good as place to cultivate the spirit of world unity as a city with representatives from 33 nations among its population. And yet in neither place is there any deliberate attempt to compass that aim. It is an end missed through lack of the larger outlook upon the higher life. New Bedford Standard...
...human memory, studying the conditions under which man remembers and forgets. Some of the results were very queer. We found that the mind does not hold or lose its memory ideas in a mechanical way, but that everything depends upon purposes; ideas which are gathered with a certain aim quickly fade away when the motive is no longer effective. Hence our memories with all the feelings and emotions attached to them are constantly controlled by hidden powers; they really disappear when new motives enter the soul...
...Corda Fratrs Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs" will be under the auspices of the Yale Cosmopolitan Club and has been definitely dated for the three days, December 27-29 The purpose of the convention is simply an enlargement upon that of the separate clubs in the various colleges which aim to promote a better understanding based on friendship between men of different nationalities...
...large advance sale of tickets has already assured, a large attendance at the Bazaar, so that it will probably not the $1,000,000 which is the aim of the National Allied Relief Committee of which the Honorable Joseph H. Choate '52 is honorary president...