Word: aims
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...marked increase in the expenses of Freshman sports. In 1908 they were $5884; in 1909 $7425; in 1910 $7937. This increase has been mainly in football and track. Better medical supervision and greater safety for the players by the use of head-guards and pads has been the aim in football, the coaches believing that the life of a Freshman is worth as much as that of a Senior...
Having searched out the aim and goal of a national theatre, it would be well to run over the duties of such a theatre. The first duty of national theatre is obviously to protect the commercial side of the enterprise until the national theatre and the national drama are so firmly established in popular favor and comprehension as to pay their own way. Another duty is to provide machinery for keeping alive such plays of literary value and artistic workmanship as may not immediately catch the ear of the great public, but which yet have signs of future life...
...chorus to make it similar to those existing among the students in German universities. The organization has the support of the Faculty and its is proposed to have it sing on Commencement and Class Days and also to give concerts in the Union throughout the winter months. The aim of the organizers of the chorus is to interest a large number of men who are fond of singing rather than to limit the membership to a very few whose vocal qualifications are exceptional...
...advanced to the time when applications for instruction are most numerous. The policy of the Faculty is to accept men for their quality rather than to seek after mere quantity of students. We weigh an applicant's intellectual and personal attributes quite as carefully as his piety, and aim to get the best men in New England...
Doubtless the Boy scout Movement is familiar to many. It is a non-sectarian effort, now extending throughout this country and England, with the aim of utilizing the normal impulses of boys for lout-of-door life and for adventure, by organizing them into group under an older leader to aid in their development into alert, useful citizens. The movement is meant for all classes of boys and the groups are organized in sympathy with and not in opposition to existing organizations...