Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...From these figures it is apparent that the advantages offered by the Summer School are made use of widely, and by a different type of student than those who attend the regular courses. They are unable to attend the regular session, usually because they are teachers. It is the aim of university extension wok to reach such a class, and the Summer School carries out this work thoroughly and efficiently...
...board of the Illustrated sets a standard for the magazine, which will, if adhered to, justify the position of growing importance which it is assuming in the University world. Their aim is that a Senior, leaving Cambridge with the volumes of his four years, "will have with him a pictorial diary omitting none of the important events of general interest which have happened during his undergraduate days." This describes to a nicety the field which the Illustrated occupies, and should seek to fill more and more. The current number, which is in a general way a spring athletic number...
...aim of the committee appointed is in no sense controversial; it is, rather, educational. It appears to the committee that in some respects the proposition is one of the most far-reaching yet made in the history of Harvard, and that it therefore merits more careful and more general consideration by undergraduates and alumni alike than it has hitherto received. The society's objections to the raise are, therefore, made in the hope of providing a basis for discussion, and, should opportunity afford, an agent for constructive action...
...importance of Militarism as a factor in the civilization of today. War on a large scale is, and has been, less of a probability for this nation than for any other; but war is a probability and as such should not be overlooked in our dreams of Millenium. The aim of the campaign of the socalled militarists is to give to the body of our people some idea of what the problem really is. The voter, not the intellectual man, is to decide this question in the end, and he (and the college man as well) need enlightenment on this...
...most instructive discussion of Militarism from the viewpoint of a soldier apeared in the Infantry Journal for November, 1910. Reprints of this may be secured from the War Department. The object of the writer, Captain Crawford, is to induce a wider intelligent discussion of the subject. A more modest aim, fit to be suggested here, is that before anyone discuss Militarism, in or out of print, he learn something of both sides of the question, and not permit hones for the future cause him to neglect to even consider present day problems. AN AMATBUR SOLDIER...