Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question immediately arises, how can we accomplish the sweeping changes that are necessary, when the very institutions which we aim to attack are incorporated in the Constitution. The immutability of the Constitution has become a paradox. Radical though the proposed changes may seem, we should not fear to accept a responsibility on which depends the accomplishment of good government in the future. The foundations of the Constitution are still sound, but a thorough reorganization of departments and legislative method should take place. The number of departments should be reduced to a minimum, each subdivided into a series of sections whose...
This proposal was in accord with the general policy of the Army officials who will take an important part in the conduct of the race and in the supplying of planes, with the aim of securing conditions as nearly approaching absolute safety as possible. Under the proposed scheme the pilots will be graded first on their landings and take-offs, the condition of their machines after the flight, and the economical use of gasoline, and secondly on their speed. Furthermore, it was stipulated that every pilot be required to fly 20 hours and make 25 perfect landings before the race...
...worth reading unless it is true. That is an axiom that applies to fiction as well as fact. Mr. Sabatini, in his latest volume of "The Historical Nights' Entertainment" has recognized one phase of this axiom. In his preface he says, "I set out again with the same ambitious aim of adhering scrupulously in every instance to actual recorded facts," and he notes a few trivial deviations from the facts of the incidents he depicts. But while he has been meticulous in his plots, he has deviated so far from the truth in his manner of presentation that the book...
...primary reasons for an examination in any subject is, or should be, that it affords a means of testing a student's comprehensive knowledge and showing him his weakness in that particular line of work. As the examination system is carried on now, however, a great part of this aim is lost. Merely the marks received in an examination are announced with no comment on the individual's work; his errors are not pointed out; and the reasons for the mark, which every man has a right to know on his own paper, remain unknown...
...purpose of this club is to interest members of the University in General Wood's presidential candidacy and to further that candidacy in whatsoever way it can. No extensive program of action will be adopted, however, until the aim of the organizers, of building up a considerable membership of men friendly to the General, has been accomplished...