Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancient and honorable society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, whose thirty-seventh continental congress has just adjourned from its meeting in Washington, has managed to maintain itself in the position of notoriety to which its "black list" recently raised it. If publicity is the aim of the members of the organization, their efforts have not been in vain. Most of the initiated probably have at best a vague idea of the difficulties against which the D. A. R. is struggling. That there is a storm in progress in D. A. R. circles is evident, though its precise nature...
...Only once has he endeavored to dispel the impression that he is the Coolidge spokesman in the Senate, and he later confessed that that one endeavor was only a political charade. The object of the "Coolidge-anyway" movement has been to block Candidate Hoover with uninstructed delegates and its aim, according to pessimists, is another "hotel room" nomination. The choice of Keynoter Fess seemed like a peep through the hotel room keyhole...
Recently the Senator fought to get through the Senate an investigation of the alleged power trust. When asked what was the aim of the investigation, he replied, "The power investigation had as its purpose the protection of two classes of the public, namely that class which uses the various public utilities and that which invests in the various power enterprises...
...exacting schedule of work which falls to the lot of every medical student, little time is left for extra-curricular activities. It has been the aim of the Medical School Society, therefore, to vary the daily routine of Medical School life by opportunities for recreation in the true sense of the word rather than to offer opportunities for further work in social and religious service, although the Society recognizes the value of such work and takes a census of each entering class with that in view...
...Dental School Society of the Phillips Brooks House Association has had for its aim this year the promotion of a social atmosphere in the Dental School where there was little opportunity for social life. Due to the fact that the student body was very small in numbers, this work was directed mainly among the new men. With this in mind, the committee, made up of the secretary, with William Malerick, G. Earl Thompson, William Wiley, and David Weisberger, looked after the new men and saw that they became acquainted with each other, and the other students in the school...