Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This year an attempt is being made to render the Senior Adviser system more efficient. In the past it has not been wholly a success, the aim of adviser and advisee having often been to see only so much of each other as was required by the office,--usually about two perfunctory interviews in the year. Now that the Freshmen are more isolated than ever by reason of the new dormitories, the Adviser system should become a real link between them and the rest of the College. But to bring about this result, effort is needed, not only...
...Phillips Brooks House tonight at 7 o'clock. Dr. Joel E. Goldthwait will address the class, regular meetings of which will be held in Brooks House every Thursday hereafter. A number of prominent physicians have agreed to speak to the class during the fall on such topics as "The Aim and Methods of the Physician," "The Preventive Function of Modern Medicine", "The Doctor and the Social Institution", "Various Opportunities in Medicine", and other subjects of interest to those who contemplate entering the profession...
...society was started last year, the principal aim being to give students an opportunity for insight into the study of economics, through the medium of lectures, meetings and discussions. That the society might afford even greater opportunities for its members it affiliated itself with the American Economics Association, the Intercollegiate Civic League, of New York City, and the International Polity Federation, thus granting its members the privileges of active membership in these larger organizations. A library has also been founded for the use of club members, to aid them in preparing theses and to promote research work...
...there have been men in the University who either did not play on their Freshman teams and accordingly judged themselves too poor to try for the University squad or who have been "side liners" on the second squad. To give these men an opportunity for actual play is the aim of this series...
...Economics Society was started last year, the principle aim being to give students opportunity for a broader insight into the study of Economics, through the medium of lectures, meetings and discussions. The work of the year was limited in order that a strong foundation might be secured. Meetings were held at which prominent men gave lectures, and members read papers...