Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long ago Harvard was attacked for being "essentially aristocratic, pandering to wealth and the idle rich, fostering snobbishness and class distinction"; now an irate graduate writes to the New York Tribune protesting against this very same "seat of aristocracy" for encouraging "theorists whose one intelligible common aim is to break down the existing oroder of things." The 100 percent-American National Security League is also incensed and is marshaling its cohorts into "millitant organizations" of the loyal students" to counteract the spread of Red propaganda...
...study of liberalism is one thing, but for an institution charactered and helped by the state, and so a quasi arm of the government to encourage theerists whose one intelligible common aim is to break down the existing order of things seems hardly ethical. Do we commonly give our support to men whom we know to be continually knocking us-- constantly plotting for our undoing...
...Mussey former editor of "The Nation" and now in the "League Against Militarism", spoke on "Making Congress Service the People". He said that it was the aim of the League Against Militarism" to keep watch...
...bring about a fair and open-minded consideration of social, industrial, political, and international questions by groups of college students. The organization will espouse no creed or principle other than that of complete freedom of assembly and discussion in the colleges. Its ultimate aim will be to create among college men and women an intelligent interest in the problems...
...great numbers of college students to participate more actively than at present in the affairs of their generation. The purpose of the convention is to bring together men and women from various colleges with a view to founding an intercollegiate liberal organization whose scope shall be national, and whose aim shall be cultivate an informed and open-minded attitude on the part of students towards social, industrial, and political questions...