Word: aims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house with her if I opposed the fine arts school." And modern languages to " enable a student to read a menu card intelligently " will be offered, and a model packing plant may be installed. The President sums it all up thus: " Practical demonstration of the theoretical is my first aim for the college." And apparently he believes in the corollary: if you can't demonstrate it, don't teach...
Between these two events stands the betrayal of the most ambitious effort the world has yet seen to organize the world's 400,000,000 Negroes with the aim of establishing world-wide black supremacy and the freedom of Africa...
Apparently, the second feature of the program, the triangular shipping line, was the real aim of Garvey. A first shipping venture had failed. He proceeded to use the Association to peddle 2,000,000 shares (for sale to Negroes only) of the Black Star Line, which was organized with $10,000,000 capital...
...having set a certain number as the maximum, can choose from among the best candidates. Harvard, apparently, will set standards which will prevent more than the desired number from entering and thus be assured also of a high type of undergraduates. There is a difference of method, but the aim is the same. Along with this there is apparent an intention to enable boys to enter Harvard from schools whose curriculum is not specifically adapted to preparation for college entrance examinations. There are many such, throughout the country, and boys graduating from them have had either to go through...
...clear that the advantages, aside from the honor, are worth working for, and are not an impossibility for many men who now maintain a C average without difficulty. The list is a deserved reward for the student who has ambition enough to aim above the mere passing mark. But that very fact suggests one fault in the system. At present the University has set C as a "good-enough" mark; and any man, it would seem, who does better than "good-enough" should have some special consideration. The Dean's List is the natural reward: yet it does not reward...