Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...state of affairs is substantially recognized at Harvard is evidenced by the fact that President Lowell is laboring hard to overcome the defect of individualism by such measures as the effort to induce Seniors to room inside the Yard, and by the construction of the Freshman dormitories which aim to throw students in close association at the outset...
...clock. The lecture will be open to the members of the Union only. The trip which Mr. Mears will describe was made by him last summer for the New York Evening Sun to beat the former record time for a complete circuit of the earth. He accomplished this aim by completing the trip in 32 days. Stereopticon slides will be used to illustrate the progress of the trip and the places passed through...
...nation-wide coal strike of recent years, that a mere strike for higher wages, even where successful, confers no lasting gain on the working class, since the coal operators and the railway managers promptly raise rates and prices to several times the amount of the increase. The present aim of the working class is to bring all its influence, by striking and by political pressure on Parliament, to bear on the nationalization of coal mines and railways. Public ownership of tramways in London, as a first step, has been a complete success, bringing a reduction of rates and an increase...
...aim of the Brown Union is to bring into closer touch than would otherwise be possible all Brown men,--undergraduates, faculty, and alumni. It is managed by undergraduate officers and committees, together with a graduate secretary and graduate board, and its policies are shaped with the purpose of effecting a better and stronger Brown spirit. Membership is open to all past and present members of the university. Practically eight-five per cent, of the undergraduates and a large number of alumni, both in Providence and out of the city, are members. Membership in the Union for undergraduates and active membership...
...Union of the University of Wisconsin has been chosen as another example of a western college institution. It is not yet housed in its own building, renting parts of the Y. M. C. A. for its purposes. Its aim, however, is much the same as that of the other Unions, the general purpose being to minister to the social needs of the male students of the University. If anything, it leans more to efforts of furnishing this entertainment by way of dances, "mixers," and smokers than the Unions of the other colleges...