Word: aims
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...week conference of superintendents of schools of small towns will be held here from June 28 to July 3. This conference will aim to promote more effective school supervision in Massachusetts. A cordial invitation is extended to all superintendants of schools in attendance at the Summer School to attend the sessions of this conference...
...aim of the China Medical Board to carry forward medical education in China by training more native doctors at the various hospitals already existing there. Then with a larger, more efficient force of Chinese doctors, the work of establishing new hospitals can be undertaken...
...plan is unique in that, unlike the tutorial systems in use in English and some other universities, it does not aim to bring into closer union students and preceptors, but is a relation entirely between students. The intercourse between the student who is advised and the student adviser is expected to be informal, though serious. The work of the Bureau, will be watched with interest; and if its success continues, may well suggest like improvements elsewhere. The hearty co-operation of that part of the student body which will be affected is essential to this success...
...protested against such personal campaigns. The writer of the editorial hadn't the faintest idea whether the most recent "flower Day" was for a Jewish society, or a Turkish or Swedish one. He simply knew that it was a private campaign, unauthorized by the University, and with an aim not generally known in the University. The CRIMSON is sorry if any one saw in the editorial an imputation that the "flower day" Monday was an attempt to get money under false pretenses. Nothing of the sort was intended...
...work will be in new courses arranged exclusively for honors students. The nature of the work will differ from that in the ordinary course, in that, the student, under the direction and advice of his instructor, will be thrown upon his own initiative. The courses will therefore aim not only to acquaint a man thoroughly with his chosen subject, but to make him more self-reliant and independent in his judgments. Against American education, in general, the criticism may be brought that the students depend too much upon what is told them, upon memory rather than thought. It is necessary...