Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season now, yet one day last week saw a host of hunters march forth from Merrimack, N. H., with guns loaded, triggers oiled. Through woods and fields near the farm of Thomas H. Braden they prowled. Before long Police Chief Frank R. Flanders was seen taking aim and- ker-blam-down came the quarry: a full-grown (60-lb.) male baboon. The hunt continued. Toward nightfall Dr. Paul Denicola fired into a copse near an open field and another baboon breathed its last. That was the end of Merrimack's great May hunting day. The baboons, lately bought...
...yardstick, and in both may be the answer to intelligent ranking of a student's ability. To make the Divisional examination an oral one, and the only one of the four years is seemingly too idealistic. It implies a faith in the student to appreciate fully his ultimate aim in education which at the present time is admittedly too visionary a premise. It implies the none that culture instead of crammed of edits will be the product of the American college...
Actual business problems will furnish the basis for discussion in all courses, and the aim of each course will be to help those attending to deduce underlying economic and business principles from the daily experience of business...
...Aim expressed by Mr. Doubleday in his announcement is to bring book production into line with other manufacture, to sell more books at the lower price, to provide established booksellers with competitive merchandise in the current war between them and the drug-and cigar-store book counters. Authors will be paid royalty at the same rate, not at the same amount per book. Wherefore, an author will profit no more from the sale of 10,000 books next fall than he did from the sale of 5,000 last spring...
...more coherent view would be that the Club should govern its choice of plays by an aim to contribute to the Theater; that this end may be obtained by acting pieces never before produced in America; and that when no such plays of outstanding merit are to be had, a revival of a play of another century may often present to contemporary Drama a note which it sadly lacks. The Club may offer a play produced in another century, just as it undertakes plays produced in another country: in both cases American Drama may benefit by the experiment...