Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fatio is one of the foremost citizens of Switzerland, is president of the Comptoir d'Escompte, the famous European banking institution, and is a leading authority on the League of Nations. He is visiting this country to promote interest in the summer school of the University of Geneva, the aim of which is to teach students of non French-speaking countries the French language and history and politics in their relation to international affairs. He will speak at many universities, including Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Cornell...
...were considered educated were usually conversant upon subjects of general knowledge in every field. Today, relatively few college students can answer the memory questions which appear in a number of daily papers. They are bound down to one line of enterprise, to one field of study, to one aim in life--to make a living. Wherein is there any joy in such a procedure? Modern students are extremely indifferent to the things about which the world about them is concerned. Their ideas regarding life's problems are very apt to be frivolous ones, based on their beliefs that...
Some men who will say with the Russian Chekhov, "We judge' human activities by their goal," not by their incidental failures in detail, and who recognize that Wilson's aim was, in Lincoln's words, "something that held out a great promise to all the people of the world for all time to come...
...that of the courses in dramatics now under way over two-thirds were instituted since 1915. There age several other famous dramatic centers, prominent among which are the School of Drama at Carnegie Institute of Technology and the amateur theatrical course at the University of North Carclina. These courses aim to give the student a practical knowledge of stage acting and artistry and arrange a series of plays given every so often for the benefit of the University or of neighboring towns, and all may be traced back to the impetus received from Professor Baker's 47 Workshop at Harvard...
...purpose is to offer assistance to Freshmen and transfer students who for any reason are behind in their studies. While primarily intended for men on probation, it will also benefit those who, though not in immediate difficulties, are nevertheless not getting the most out of their work. With this aim in view, a circular letter has been sent out to all Senior advisors by Haven Parker '22, chairman of the Student Council committee on Senior advisors, calling their attention to the Bureau, and asking that Freshmen who are at all in need of help be recommended...