Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three More Blows. If the President's aim was to get conservative oldsters off the Court, the Van Devanter retirement was a partial success, but there were reasons for believing that his chit from the Justice gave a sour taste to his breakfast. Every President in his second term finds it difficult to control Congress, and by forcing Congress to pass his Court bill, he could have shown Congressmen that he still had the upper hand. Usually a master of compromise, he had refused all compromise on the Court issue as if determined to force a showdown...
...teach its undergraduates, and that its second purpose must be a thorough contribution to the knowledge of the world through productive scholarship and intelligent research on the part of its faculty and graduate students. For this reason a balance between these two goals must be achieved, so that one aim does not obscure or act to the detriment of the other. Today at Harvard the art of teaching has been subordinated to the function of research, and the balance between the two should be restored...
...various concentrators who assembled at the "Crimson" for the meetings to which they had been invited, were of the opinion that the University had seriously neglected to bear this important aim of education in mind during the last few years. Speaking for the undergraduates in the college proper, they felt that the calibre of instruction, particularly in the large courses having section-men, was uniformly poor...
...above all "it should be our highest aim to produce the type of men who are able to visualize an entity rather than let themselves get absorbed too early in the narrow channels of specialization. Our century has produced the expert types in millions. Let us make way now for the men of vision...
...these activities the Council wishes to make clear that its sole aim is to help economics students with material that concerns them as students, not to present any partisan political views whatsoever. The Council hopes to be a market place for opinions but no purveyor of opinions itself...