Word: aims
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...April. This decision was reached in consideration of a similar drive to be conducted throughout New England under the auspices of the New England Chapter of the American Red Cross Association during the last week in March. Since the Red Cross Drive is to have very much the same aim as the Phillips Brooks House Collection, it was thought wiser to postpone the latter for two weeks...
...When one of these institutions starts to make up a football schedule, the sole aim seems to be to so arrange games that the team may work up to its maximum strength at the end of the season when it is expected to meet one or two strong competitors. The schedule is arranged so that in the early part of the season teams are played which are not real competitors at all, and cannot be expected to win except by reason of some extraordinary circumstance...
...last year's Jubilee being perhaps the most successful yet held. Men who didn't know they could sing, or who even thought they couldn't, have learned that one can fall far short of operatic standards of vocal performance and yet enjoy singing. The Freshman Jubilee does not aim to educate nor does it intend to force men to sing against their will; it only hopes to lay the foundation for a life-long enjoyment of one of the most natural and delightful of the few co-operative activities in which a great company can simultaneously take part...
When the constitutions of the various classes of Harvard College were constructed their makers had in mind, above all else, the fact that in elections and in other class activities each undergraduate should be able to not only have a vote, but also a voice. Their aim was to avoid the possibility of the suppression by any group of any candidates for office who were desired by a considerable portion of a class and to insure the election of men representative of the entire class. In order to accomplish this, especially in the Senior class, the method of nomination...
...University must not be made conspicuous by cause of failure, but by reason of success. To obtain this result every member of the University--military, college, and graduate--must give to his limit. Whatever the amount each can give, everyone can give something. The aim of the University is a 100 percent, subscription list,--that will mean success to the campaign, and honor to the school...