Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naturally, when these people enter college, as they do in ever increasing numbers as the aim of education becomes more professional and less cultural, they do not make a sudden metamorphosis and become pious. Nor would they be able to do this if it were required of them. True piety can be won by the individual alone. He must experience deeply much of life, and he must suffer. Since modern living conditions tend to remove the opportunities for meditation and suffering, or at least to postpone such opportunities till after college life, large numbers of students are excusably irreligious...
...list of activities being represented this year is larger than at the meeting held a year ago for the present Sophomores. This is in accordance with an aim of the Phillips Brooks House Association to make the meeting as comprehensive as time will permit. The speakers will have six minutes in which to present the case of their organization...
Professor Hind's constant aim in these lectures, delivered when he held the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry in 1930-31, was not to add to the general sum of knowledge about Rembrandt; but to stimulate and further enjoyment in his works. And for this reason the lectures avoid the stiff formality of a thesis, and present an attitude as delightful as it is rare toward the work of the greatest of the Flemish school...
...workings of American business, in that atmosphere of intellectual freedom which is the finest tradition of the university. Certainly fundamental theory should bulk at least as large as practice in the Business School. Otherwise it could not be justified as a part of a liberal university. And the chief aim of the School--to raise business to the rank of a profession--will be realized only when business attains to the surety of purpose and the disinterested service, which should characterize a genuine profession...
...being impaired by cancellation, it is improbable that private credit would be affected. Mr. Barrett must have, imbibed some of the "acid" of his "considerations." The Ottawa conference is not an attempt to affect American trade. If such trade is affected it will be incidental to, and not the aim of, a conference whose objective is a revival of British trade. The conference resulted more from American efforts at supporting national industries than from any other single cause. Nor is America spending a half-billion to let the British mercantile fleet into the Great Lakes. If that were...