Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black-marketing, got at least two members of other Western embassies involved in homosexual activities ; all these victims were hustled home by their governments after refusing to spy for him. Sig also tried his best to seduce a female secretary in the British embassy, but she guessed his aim and reported him. Still Sig stayed...
...that viewpoint known as linguistic analysis. This is for two reasons: because Wittgenstein's views have so influenced philosophy at Harvard, and because they illustrate so well the difference between humanistic issues and those technical issues with which the Harvard department is largely concerned. Wittgenstein's professed ultimate aim was to show that the traditional philosophical problems were really pseudo-problems; he wished to dissolve them by analysis of language. Not: He did not aim to solve the traditional problems; he aimed to dissolve them...
...humanistic values of liberal education, show a disregard of reason in their practices, and in fact do little but recreate their own kind among their students, while a group of disaffected undergraduates seek elsewhere for what they think Harvard should offer. Am I mistaken as to the purported aim of Harvard College? Is it really meant to be a trade school, despite all protestations to the contrary? Or should the Peace Corps send some real teachers to Cambridge? Gordon L. Brumm...
Catholic Conant. B.C.'s drive stems from its 22nd president, Father Michael Walsh, 51, a no-nonsense biologist sometimes called "the James Conant of Catholic education." Walsh has run B.C. since 1958 with the aim of proving that a Catholic college can produce impressive numbers of Catholic intellectuals. To get better students for its all-male liberal arts school, B.C. is scouring the nation's blue-chip Catholic high schools for bright kids. The payoff is an honors program of students with average college board scores in verbal and math aptitude of 707 and 712. This year...
...strong president to give it focus. Miss Park is also concerned with the trend toward early specialization among undergraduates. To deepen liberal learning, she wants to bring in more creative arts, politics, economics, math, philosophy-to produce laymen who can "challenge the specialist for the public good." Her aim is to put "some nobility, some unselfishness of aspiration into the lives of these young people whom knowledge has given such great power...