Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aims of the School are easy to define. Its business is to give its men the broadest possible training to enable them to become competent and creative members of their profession. There is probably no period in the history of the world where the phenomena of architecture are more interesting or more promising than they are in one United States today. A vast number of men of talent and a few men of genies are producing an architectural Renaissance in America that will probably mark an epoch in the history of the five arts. It is the purpose...
...college professors who organized the league to enforce peace have consciously or unconsciously fostered in every American college definite political organizations whose aim is similar to their own. Professors with strong proclivities toward social sympathy with the downtrodden have, by close association, fostered the development of strike leaders. Thus the professors themselves, so far as they have recognized their own trend in the student's leisure day, so far as they have applied their own knowledge to current problems, have produced the student movement of our time. This is recognized by the supporters of the unchanged order or things...
Broad Education is Aim...
...most important functions of a student committee on education, it seems to me, is to increase faculty student cooperation. In spite of the fact that both groups are presumably working with a common aim, recognition of this is too often prevented by the attitude of 'pupil against teacher' which carries over from school. Students assume that professors exists in order to cram dull facts down their unwilling throats, and the faculty take that attitude for granted. When, however, a report appears like that of the Harvard Committee, it demonstrates the existence among students of real interest in education, and indicates...
...states, and not the nation or the local community, are the units which enact and enforce the mass of laws which aim at the protection of public order, peace and safety...