Word: aims
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...United States, succeeded in bringing together for informal discussions all the men interested in international affairs. The strength of the departments of government and international law in the University has attracted here many men preparing for service under the State Department, and the activities of the club aim to supplement the work of the Faculty. All members of the club who last year took the government examinations passed successfully, and will probably soon be appointed to responsible positions in the diplomatic and consular service...
...meetings are conducted informally, and discussions of current events in economics are held. It is also the aim of the society to promote the social relations of the members and to furnish a closer connection with the members of the Faculty. The society holds the official recommendation of the Economics Department...
President John Grier Hibben in his speech Thursday afternoon opening the work of the 167th year of Princeton University said that some marked changes would be made this year in the undergraduate courses of study, the aim being to help the man who is anxious to study and put him on a higher plane than the man who lacks ambition...
...question that Columbia is performing a public service of vast proportions to the community which it touches and the country at large in bringing 10,000 students within the pale of its educational work. Believing the dissemination of learning to be the primary duty of that institution, its aim is to reach as many people as its equipment and conditions will permit, and each year sees these growing as on increasing student body presses for admission. Columbia at least is not afraid of size, and the community which it serves is the gainer for that confidence...
...applying for Class Day tickets Seniors and undergraduates promise not to sell or give them away to any but their friends. Class Day is an occasion when Harvard men, and particularly members of the Senior Class aim to entertain their family and friends in the pleasantest manner possible. Every year, however, in spite of the care of the Class Day Committee, tickets admitting to the Yard and to the Stadium go astray and are found in the hands of speculators and others, whose presence is not only undesirable but objectionable. As long as tickets are in the possession of Harvard...