Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More significant, however, is the progress they represent towards the ultimate aim of the tutorial system. Coincident with their adoption, it is expected that there will be a reduction from the number of required courses, and an increase in the student's work with his tutor. This will permit the tutee to put most of his course work on elemental and distributive subjects, depending on the non-credit general lectures and his tutorial for the majority of his college education...
...took the French iron mines in the Briey basin, the French Army was forbidden to bombard the source of a great part of the ore Germany consumed during the War. With all Governments as their custom ers, munitions men have only one thing to fight - internationalism. As businessmen their aim is to keep each nation overarmed, to stir up nationalistic anxieties which only guns and shells and tanks can quiet. The de Wendels operate equally well on either side of an international bor der. One branch of the family uses a de in front of its name while the other...
...order to carry out the aim that each House shall so far as possible be representative of the College as a whole, the assignment of members of the Class of 1937 is supervised by a Central Committee consisting of the President of the University, the Dean of Harvard College and the Dean of Freshmen. The final admission of a student to a House rests, however, with the Master, Men who wish to apply in groups of 6 or 8 should file their applications together, accompanied by a letter giving the names of the members of the group. The Central Committee...
President Conant, in his first report, called attention sharply to the problem of the teaching load carried by members of the faculty. The tutorial system, superimposed on the course system, has placed a burden on Harvard professors and instructors which may interfere seriously with the President's aim of studding Harvard's faculty with the most illustrious of American scholars...
...criterion by which the success of a play is to be judged is the degree to which it fulfills its pretensions, then "The Perfumed Lady" must be adjudged an eminently successful play. It sets out to be a pleasant light comedy, and in no place is this aim forgotten. The result is a play in which the dialogue is amusing, the plot well-conceived, and the characters admirably drawn. Precisely because it does not attempt too much, "The Perfumed Lady" accomplishes a great deal...