Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university architects to the sacred institution of Tap Day. "The Hoot" was edited by one of Yale's brightest of bright young men, Mr. William Harlan Hale, who, since his graduation has kept his by-line alive in periodicals of greater scope and pretentions, but who, to accomplish his aim, had resigned from the editorial board of the ancient. "Yale Literary Magazine," taking a companion or so with...
...proposed aims of the House plan is to offer a chance for the undergraduate to meet and know older men, stimulating intellectually as well as socially. The plan of inviting visiting celebrities will help to accomplish this aim. But there are within the university many professors whose acquaintance would be delightful and valuable. A casual contact with some of these could be followed up and become a friendship of lasting value. Professor Williams in speaking at Adams and Winthrop Houses has started a tradition which it would be well to continue. If the Houses are to develop along the best...
...educated to the Stadium overlook the distinct pleasures of forming the gallery that fringes an unobtrusive football game, and of shouting to Joe and Bill. For the greatest number of people, the thousands of spectators of the present day game overshadow the sport atmosphere that really is an underlying aim of the whole thing. In the gymnasiums we see with amusement the pictures of some intersectional clash of the nineties, with a handful of people cheering the boys on, helping to bathe Battling Joe's blackened eye, and from time to time helping to organize a little informal cheering. Psychology...
...brisk practice session marked one more day off the football calendar yesterday at Soldiers Field as Casey kept his men on the march. Fundamentals took up part of the afternoon's drill, the squads being put through a snappy brushing up on all the elementals, the aim being to keep the Harvard cogs clicking in the same way that they have been in the past three games...
...exhibitionism which affected the activities, as well as every other phase of college life, is disappearing. The rattling Ford, the ukelole, the spirit of extravagant devotion to the college, all these are passing or have departed, and with them has passed the idea of extracurricular activities as the main aim in college life, a welcome sign of the appearance of a more balanced sense of proportion among the students. The extra-curricular activities themselves, however, now that they have resumed their proper place, serve too useful a purpose to disappear. They offer some testing ground where the student can apply...