Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance is bitterly condensed in two sentences. At the Front, murder, "that very crime on which formerly the world's condemnation and severest penalty fell, becomes our highest aim." The other sentence. "Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades?words, words, but they hold the horror of the world...
Under the designation social club are included waiting clubs, final clubs, semifinal clubs, fraternities, and all other organizations whose aim is primarily social. Such activities clubs as the Dramatic Club, Glee Club, Instrumental Clubs, and Harvard Band Club are not considered in this category. Publications like the Lampoon and Advocate and honorary societies like Phi Beta Kappa are also excluded...
...which have been stored for several years have been made available. Classification is of great importance, and to work out this problem in such a way that it may serve students and business men alike, a substantial number of years must elapse before the study can be completed. The aim is to carry on the work of cataloguing as rapidly as the classification work is advanced...
...next problem is, what sort should this guidance be? In the first place, in the opinion of this committee, vocational guidance should aim to be human rather than scientific. It is a problem in helping young men find themselves, to be answered by sympathetic human contact rather than by statistical analysis. There can be no single method and no sure-five system. The committee is strongly opposed to any idea of routine measurement of capacity or pigeon-holing of personality by any chart system whatsoever. Intelligence tests should be taken as indicating perhaps the possession of capacity but never...
...film room fitted with a thermostat to close it if the temperature became too high. But sometime before, a blundering plumber had placed a water pipe in such a way that although it did not prevent the closing of the door by hand, it interfered with the aim of the automatic closing device. The door failed to close when the film began to burn and the gases (both poisonous and explosive) issuing forth, were driven through the building by a ventilating fan a few feet away...