Word: aims
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What would the world think of a Harvard Anti-Saloon League, for instance, which did not aim to include all those interested in the cause of temperance...
College literary magazines generally meet like two dogs, but the June Monthly makes its comprehensive review of similar publications a helpful discussion of just what such publications should aim to be; and finally works out a very satisfactory creed--to wit: "A magazine which makes sensationalism or journalism or propaganda its first concern has no right to the name literary"; and again: "We aim, not to be professional, or in any cheap ways distinguished, but only to be as excellent as possible in the field of amateur literature." So, if amateurs in literature can do as well as they have...
...cattle-ship rather than none at all. Realizing the general prevalence of this desire for foreign travel, the French Society at Columbia University has entered into a new field of activity and drawn up a plan for an educational tour of France during the coming summer. The aim of the society is to conduct the trip on a purely educational basis, and so it has reduced prices to an absolute minimum. The trip will be strictly informal, members of the party being placed under no restrictions, and it will include all points of interest in France. Certainly no better opportunity...
...they are training. The instruction is given by a permanent staff of experienced and specially trained teachers. In addition, special lectures are invited for short periods to give expert information on special subjects. On the whole the School has shown that it does what it has described as its aim: the training of executives, by giving thorough and scientific training in the methods and principles of business organization and management...
...Graduate School of Applied Science, the recipient of Mr. McKay's gift, has two main aims, the selection of students and the selection of teachers. Its object is to encourage the best students in order that the most able, on entering the school, shall encounter only men of their own calibre. For, as in every institution of learning, the character of the teaching depends as much on the ability of those who learn as on the excellence of those who teach. The second aim, made far more feasible by the growing McKay fund, is to accept as professors only...