Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less realistic for that. We are not all degenerates and abnormals. Howells purpose was to give us a picture of life as it is, with all its little common, ordinary happenings, and yet to make the reader like it, and see the inner meaning behind everything. In this aim he succeeded admirably, enrichening his stories with a humor that rings very true. In "The Rise of Silas Lapham", this humor finds an excellent field and is displayed to the best advantage...
...acquires an especial significance for Princeton and Harvard. Temporarily sundered in competition on the athletic field, the two universities are still in harmonious intellectual accord. In the most fitting and proper of all ties, they are still firmly knit together. They are still side by side in their common aim of fulfilling the advance and enlightenment of the nation and the world...
...House of the Interpreter" is what Dean Sperry termed Phillips Brooks House in his talk to the graduate students gathered at the annual reception in October. He well interpreted the aim of the Graduate Schools Society. Its entire program of activities is arranged to meet the various needs and desires of graduate students at Harvard. Little opportunity for any social life together is possible for graduate students. The Graduates Schools Society attempts partially to meet this need...
...organization to the life of the bulk of undergraduates are dubitable. Religion, both in and out of college, is coming to be recognized as a matter for the individual conscience and any effort to force it on the public is likely to result in the annihilation of its aim. Be it to the credit of the Phillips Brooks House that the delicacy of the situation is clearly realized; and that, as a result, practical philanthropy is emphasized rather than evangelical propaganda...
...work done by the social service committee and its aim is no less necessary than the Phillips Brooks House Library, the opportunities afforded for the gathering of various sects, or the holiday meetings for those students away from home. To read over the report and to analyze, the actual benefits of social service, should arouse a desire for the continuation of the institution. Such continuation, however, is impossible without undergraduate cooperation Unless the present figures are to be taken as certainly a temporary relapse, the Phillips Brooks House has reached a cul 'de' sac in one important field...