Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Student Liberal Club, held last night in the Trophy Room of the Union, Professor R. K. Hack discussed the problem of education, maintaining that a moral change of attitude on the part both of the students and of the Faculty must be the aim of those who seek an improvement in American education. Granting this hypothesis, the problem is, according to Professor Hack, to infect the community, both of students and of instructors, with the realization of the woeful state of education in this country and thus lead to a change of attitude...
More Freshmen and Sophomores are needed for the Lampoon business competition. This is a good opportunity for men in these classes to use their business ability with a definite aim. New men are asked to report at the Lampoon Building at 5.30 this afternoon, when the ten weeks' competition will start...
...meanly esteemed, as Lechford found, for the colony meant to the governed by the laws of God as given in the Bible and interpreted by the ministers. The ministry was the only profession for which academic preparation was provided. Harvard College, then, began as a School of Theology. Its aim was to educate learned ministers for the churches. Its course of study was such that a graduate was ready to enter at once upon the work of a minister...
...those who leave a Symphony Concert feeling that they would have enjoyed a jazz band more; and others who, upon seeing a Shakespearian performance long for the less subtle enjoyment of a musical comedy. Their course of procedure is clear; either they may resolve to try again, with the aim of improving their taste, or they may decide to remain in the realm of jazz and chorus-girls...
...without protesting. The Harvard Glee Club can always return to doing the things that any glee club does. But is it not fairer and more reasonable for those who have any interest in the matter at all, to support, or at least to retrain from maligning, a movement whose aim among other things, is to place the name of Harvard on as high a standard musically, as it maintains in other arts! MALCOLM H. DILL...