Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made of extinct birds' feathers and is now valued at $1,000,000.) Spoehr is also known as a shrewd administrator: he accepted his new $25,000-a-year job only after insisting that the regents carry out all the Kerr-Gardner recommendations, give him full power to aim the center toward "real eminence and distinction." No sooner had the regents agreed last week than President Snyder resigned his own $24,000-a-year job. Said he a bit sadly: "The stage has now been set for the long pull toward greatness...
...ambition," Palmer likes to say, "is to win them all." Next week, having added the British Open to his well-studded crown of golf titles (and its $3,920 prize to his unofficial 1961 winnings of more than $64,000), he heads for Chicago to take aim at the one big jewel still missing: the Professional Golfers Association championship...
...Seminar has been directed from its inception by Henry A. Kissinger '50, Associate Director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs. Its aim is to give its members a chance to discuss contemporary problems with each other and to become aquainted with various aspects of American life...
...went off to enter U.C.L.A.'s "gifted students" program, wound up with a B.A. and a B+ average-enough to win a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for a year's graduate study. Last week, skipping U.C.L.A.'s commencement, True was off to the University of Arizona to aim for a Ph.D. in anthropology by 1963 and a teaching job in a university. Said he, taking anthropology's long view: "I guess I'm the first member of my family to get a degree in a thousand generations...
...just this conflict of objectives which turned the attention of administrators to the less emotionally loaded problems of encouraging schools and helping students get through in three years. Most administrators and educators are reluctant to take responsibility for a program whose aim is as vague as improving education. The need for a concrete process which is accepted as being good, which can be expedited rather than evaluated, has given rise to reliance on highly objective measures of success, such as whether students and faculty are satisfied, rather than on more debatable valuations...