Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. Huppuch is captain of this year's Varsity basketball team, and received a Phi Beta Kappa in his Junior year. Cooper is captain of the Varsity boxing team. The Minor Sports Council is comprised of the captains and managers of all the recognized minor sports teams. The chief aim of the council is to improve the spirit of cooperation among the various teams, and to place the minor sports on a more efficient basis in the University...
...Governor was asked to make a statement on the coming presidential election, he said, "For some time I have urged college man to enter politics, to attain unbiased understanding, to stand on their own feet and to think for themselves; the coming election is not an exception to this aim. Since the American people have been given the cherished gift of free suffrage, it is every man's duty to cast his ballot on election day. Each Harvard man should see to it that he has registered, and when election day arrives, let him make up his own mind which...
...Machado government did not take this lying down. Within an hour three motors full of gunmen cornered the car of Dr. Ricardo Dolz, an anti-Machado leader and rector of the National University, and attempted to shoot him down. Their aim was poor. Blue with fright. Dr. Dolz escaped and hid in the Uruguayan Legation where he was promptly joined by another opposition leader, Carlos Manuel de la Cruz...
...also interested in your statement (in the same leader) that "the aim of education becomes more professional and less cultural" and that "fighting the spirit of the times is a vain and thankless task" which those in control of Harvard College ought not to undertake. This is very interesting. One has heard before, for sometime, that Harvard has sold out to the spirit of the times and gone in for "professional objectives" rather than "cultural ones." Dr. Flexner said something like that, and Dr. A. J. Nock, in their late internationally read books. I have heard it intimated in Oxford...
...reason for the recent ruling doubtless did not originate in an aim of the Labor Department to deprive each and every foreign student of income acquired in part time work. The regulation primarily checks persons with little academic purposes in mind, who enroll in a university such as Columbia, for example, with the occult aim of living and working in the United States without coming in under the quota regulation. "These pseudo students deserve the restriction that the Doak ruling is destined to give. The deplorable fact is that a somewhat scattered group of foreign students, some of whom...