Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condemn utilitarianism that leads to the abolition of Latin as a requirement for an A.B. degree, while an article by Moses W. Ware '02, effectively points out how essential for even so "utilitarian" a field as business is the elusive quality of culture or balance which is the highest aim of a college education...
...common tone of the article and letters is the fear that the present administration is allowing the qualities of character and those described thirty years ago under the head of ethics to be obscured by a modern brand of scholasticism. If we lose sight of this aim in the College, we might as well, to quote the letter of Mr. J. J. Wiggins '12, "Change the name of the old place, and call it "Harvard Square Normal School" or something like that, so that people won't get it confused with what it used...
Some surgeons inject alcohol into those nerves. The alcohol paralyzes the nerves and makes them as useless as though they were severed. But few surgeons are adept at hitting the quarter of a square inch under the collar bone for which they must aim their hypodermic needles. Dr. Marvin thinks little of the procedure, but said it is the only sensible thing surgery has done for angina pectoris or coronary disease...
...second aim of the newly formed branch will be accomplished by establishing similar clubs in foreign countries...
...Brown) and the movies (the subject of Miss Iris Barry's article) are not "pure," but are hybrids which owe their genesis to the blending of several arts. Mr. Brown is right in observing that the modern stage designer leaves little to our imaginations, since "the stage designer's aim is to make the setting an inseparable witness of the scene,' a 'silent character' without which the drama would be incomplete." And Miss Barry states baldly the problem of the movies: ". . . whether it shall remain as now largely a diversion in which mere photography and second-hand theatre play...