Word: aims
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Gilbert is a hearty advocate of the efforts by Americans to attain a style distinct from those of European composers. In pursuit of this aim Mr. Gilbert has written much music based upon negro or Indian themes. His "Comedy Overture" has been played all over this country, in Europe, and even in Russia. His "Indian Sketches" have also been performed by leading American orchestras...
...interested in the spirit and essance of poetry. His interest sems to be centered in novels, chronology and similar bricks and mortar of literature. This is after all a good and typically scholarly point of view: but it is to be questioned whether this sort of scholarship is the aim of many of those who listen to his lectures. (Name withheld by request...
This is the third year that the invitation has been issued, the first tour having been organized in the summer of 1926. The aim of the tours is fellowship and mutual understanding between students of the Old World...
...most interesting of the studies to be assisted by the Foundation during the coming year is that of Dr. W. G. Luyten G. '24, assistant professor of Astronomy in the University. Dr. Luyten will go to Mazelspoort, South Africa, with the aim of taking a large number of photographs of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope in the Harvard Observatory there. His object will be to compare these plates with similar plates taken between 1896 and 1906, to obtain information concerning the numbers, velocities and intrinsic brightnesses of the stars in the neighborhood...
Extension changes in the organization of the Social Service work are under consideration by the committee, and will be announced shortly. The ultimate aim of the committee in proposing a revision of the existing order of things McTurnan explained, is to bring men into closer contact with the Phillips Brooks House organization, also with the University, and to stimulate interest within the College in welfare work...