Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Student guidance, vocational suggestion, and consultation on careers are no new things in American colleges. But perhaps in interesting assay is the method of direction employed at Purdue University by Mr. J. E. Walters, Director of Personnel. His aim is not primarily to at square pegs into round holes, but to enable students to develop their personalities while in college, so as not to emerge as misfits to the detriment of themselves or their future employers...
...group of lawyers have already completed the first examination of other city codes similar to those needed by Cambridge. The aim of the group is to combine the fine points of several city codes into a uniform code that will adequately take care of the needs of the city in the future...
...student cannot cover the vast amount of material in a field such as English in the eleven courses possible for concentration. The purpose of the Tutorial System was, of course, to fill up the gaps left and to tie the whole together. And although at present it accomplishes this aim to perhaps a sufficient extent, listening to the lectures of specialists on particular authors and works was of great advantage, especially in the case of works the student has not time to read himself. Similarly in other departments, History for instance, or Fine Arts, Comparative Literature, or even Government...
...When this Democratic measure to substitute lRS bonds for excess gold behind U. S. currency was first put forward. Secretary Mills insisted its scope was purely domestic, denied that its real aim was to meet foreign demands for gold. ?Senator Carter Glass last week contradicted the President, declared that though he had been in the midst of last winter's financial fight, he had heard no Administration spokesman express alarm about the gold standard...
...statements made by the League's representative advisory council under the heading of specific objectives. It is only right that the support of war veterans and dependents whose condition is actually the result of war service, and not of post war accident, should continue. The League's aim is to stop the mass of payments now being made to numbers of men who, eager to obtain a slice of the governmental melon, have carved out a nitch for themselves that is entirely without justification...