Word: aims
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...course, Music 1, combines some of these in a general survey course: inasmuch as there are three hundreds members of this course, the wisdom of the change speaks for itself. The entire curriculum is organized according to a new plan which took four years to evolve, the aim of which is to supply the student with a more satisfactory method of approach and study. Courses on a specific man or period are given in such a way that the knowledge thereby acquired may be applied to any other period; and a better correlation between these historical courses and the technical...
Plans for the writing of the second chapter in the history of the year-old H-Y-P Conference are now well under way. Last year the Conference was notably successful in its aim, the bringing together of important figures in governmental, academic and business life to discuss problems of particularly pertinent interest. By and large it represented a study of that great structure known as government, that bridge between society and the individual. The subjects there represented included foreign trade, agriculture, banking, social security, government and industry, and associated topics...
...aim, of course, is to bring national problems of overwhelming importance into full prespective. Last year a number of the "big men" participating expressed their delight at discovering this new method of self-education. That indeed, epitomizes the spirit of a conference in which leaders in various fields collaborate with but a single goal in mind--the building of a broader understanding...
...brought in Mr. Conant. Still more tipping of caps and bowing and Public Orator, Dr. C. Bailey, in excellent Latin, recalled the visit made by the Vice-Chancellor as head of the Oxford delegation to the tercentenary celebrations at Harvard. Then Mr. Conant's accomplishments were reviewed and his aim as the head of Harvard set down: ". . . ut hominum societat em maximan ex diversis et ipsam elementsis compositam in unum corpus conformet" with the object of promoting the advancement of both learning and human happiness. It was quite a colorful event, but, so far as catching the Latin went...
...hand and professional specialists on the other, the University can devote itself to "general education." Its subject matter should be "the fundamental problems of metaphysics, the social sciences, and natural science. . . . The teaching would be directed to understanding the ideas in these fields, and would have no vocational aim...