Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they looked for help, not only through work which would still allow them to do so, as was the case of many industrious students before the war, but also they sought assistance from a general change of system, that is to say by cooperation between students with the ultimate aim of welding as large a number of students as possible into a self-supporting unit with the most speed...
...folded together, tied, and placed in a drawer with one's diploma. It is a perfectly respectable thing. It represents a certain amount of work, and it exemplifies an attitude toward education which has never failed of strong supporters. There is another kind, however, which admits as its primary aim the equipment of a human being with tested tools and a certain proficiency with which he may better realize his ultimate potentialities in life. That this latter sort is the kind which is necessary and desirable today is beyond dispute. Life is becoming complicated to the point where tools...
...present decision has borne out what Roosevelt often preached but rarely practiced,--that there are good trusts as well as bad ones. The Commission has expressed its approval of the aim of the Van Sweringon merger, its objections have been of a purely economic nature. It has condemned the provisions that allow the Van Sweringon brothers to control 51 percent of the voting power while owning but 32 percent of the outstanding stock...
...significant thing about the March issue seems to be that nothing rewarded the watching for a reviewer's text. It is neither very bad nor superlatively good, but of a consistent merit which is the aim of every seasoned magazine editor. The stories can be read to the end; the scant verse rhymes, once unpleasantly; the editorial page assures us that it has been a hum-drum season, above stairs and below. The one article of distinctive quality is Mr. Pell's "Documentary Adventures in Old New York", the third in a series, and if it lacks a little...
...triangular meet with a fraction over 50 points", said Coach Farrell yesterday in commenting on Saturday's meeting. "There are 116 points for distribution this year and we have set out goal at 58 points this year. Half of the points would insure a victory and we aim to utilize our strength in the track events to run up a safe margin. In the six track events, excepting the high hurdles there will be a distribution of 54 points of which we expect to capture...