Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aim. Speaking in English, Bishop Brent delivered a sermon which all could follow in the assembly's four-language program. He sounded "the Call to Unity . . . from God to man." He said Christianity was challenged "to get its house in order before it further infects the Eastern world with sectarianism." He said the world was "lost," that Jesus Christ alone could save...
...emphasized the aim of the Conference-to discover theological differences, not dispute them; to survey the grounds common to all the branches of Christianity, and then draw up the charter of a United Church in the form of reports which the delegates would take back to their churches for ratification...
...DRUMS OP PANIC-Martin Feinstein-Macy-Masius ($2). The aim of this nebulous narrative is to show the effect of the War not only upon a warrior but upon the family to which he returns. Author Feinstein is a poet. In fact he won the Nation's poetry prize in 1922. Hence his disregard for the pedestrian logic of coherent storytelling. In a fine frenzy of disillusion he causes the hero, named Edsel, to mouth his horror of the corpse-strewn Argonne, what time, back on the family farm, he cuckolds his hayseed brother Hiram. For some reason Hiram...
...face with a pencil and a sheet of blank pa per. People who have written a lot, and badly, will be asked to stop writing. Those who have the "literary impulse" and show some signs of obeying that impulse successfully will be instructed how to obey it profitably. The aim is to save a writer five years, commer cially. There will also be much inspirational and critical instruc tion in the form of lectures and personal conference...
...plan to study civilizations for two years, then to undertake the usual general or professional college courses leading to degrees. "The gist of the course of study in the Experimental College," he said, "is that it will represent a study of situations rather than a study of subjects. . . . The aim is to keep informal the process of learning...