Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aim of this sole required course for Freshmen is to teach through discipline the how of writing. To speak is easy, even for the moron, but not to write. Expression on paper is perhaps the most difficult task that the educated man has to meet. A surprising number pass through Harvard knowing nothing about English literature and--most significant--ignorant of good grammar. To avoid a one-sided training, to stimulate the clarifying and transmitting of ideas, the University should compel, as a primary function, a writing course for every student, regardless of whether he escapes English...
...Chairman of the Policy Committee; Francis R. King '39 of the Publicity Committee; Malcolm Jonna '39 of the Membership Committee; and Robert Homans '40 of the Finance Committee. The new constitution was passed, providing for an opportunity for all who join to work on committees by next year. Their aim is to offer students favoring the present system of free private enterprise a chance to organize their opinions...
...varied qualities demanded in his selection. The foremost qualification is interest in dealing with human beings; next come approachability, or the rare biological element of appeal, and insight into the total personality. To obtain response, an adviser must set up confidence through frankness, through fixing each man's aim and helping him to reach it. He ought also to gauge as best he can the attitude of the advisce toward his new environment. With these standards raised, there lingers the question of whom to select. Certainly not those full professors who are unable to give at least three hours...
...aim of the display is to show how the horse as an art form was treated in widely varying ways in the East from the Han period and in the West from early classical days down to the present day. In the Eastern group the works are predominantly statues, although there are also numerous tapestries, parchment drawings, and minute carvings on ivory. The objects are for the most part unnaturalistic and in all sorts of grotesque forms, reflecting the ideas of primitive...
...welcome this opportunity to clarify our position on the campus. Our branch is composed solely of students at Harvard University. Our purposes are best defined in our Declaration of Principles. "The Young Communist League is a permanent university for youth. It is first and foremost an educational organization. Our aim is to educate young people to understand the world in which we live. We want them to learn how to meet the challenge of war and reaction. We want to help them discover the path to the extension of liberty and security. We want them to find their...