Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boarding school of large size has, moreover, gone a step further and has introduced, more or less informally, courses designed to give the student some conception of the actual world within which he lives, such as can not be derived from the study of algebra or Latin. Their aim, namely, the general broad view over and the correlation of the various forces which have produced the contemporary state of mankind, is almost a commonplace in the academic life of such an institution as is Harvard where not only many courses as for example, Biology A, but ultimately the tutorial system...
...avowed leading aims of the new Houses has been to establish a social and intellectual concord between student and instructor, in short, to develop further President Lowell's conception of the University as a group of experienced and un-experienced students working together for the same end. It has been proposed to aid this aim by providing a common eating place to bring the men together. But contact between them would be decidedly hindered if one or the other had first to hurdle over the impediment of a "high table". The social touch in bringing tutor and student to dine...
...have been a cover-to-cover reader of TIME for over two years. From the very first I've felt that TIME and its aim-"to keep intelligent men and women well-informed"-must be the creation of a genius. If Briton Hadden was that genius, my sincere condolences upon his death...
...Griggs concluded by saying that modern universities ought to acquire a higher spiritual aim and a liberal culture over against the methodical and specialized methods they new have...
...depends upon a proper treatment of the economic causes, suggested Mr. R. G. Hawtrey, exchange professor from London in the first lecture of his course on Economics and Sovereignty at Lowell Institute. Not only is this suggestion most significant for determining a means of attaining the most important aim of humanity at present, but also of the educational policy that necessarily must be followed to achieve world peace. Since the basic principle in which all educators are in accord is that the broad purpose of education is to fit the individual most efficiently to understand, appreciate, and better himself...