Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appears to be the aim of President Conant to make Harvard a real "national university," as Oxford may be called in England. This will be an additional recommendation for Boston and Cambridge--for Harvard is now quite as much a Boston institution as it is a Cambridge institution. But to Bostonians it seems, a queer idea that during the experimental period of the new fellowships all the holders must come from the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Why should New England be shut out, even for a time, from this opportunity? Or Massachusetts at the least...
...cannot improve education at Harvard, if that is your aim, by making petty attacks on the personalities, evidently unknown to you, of departmental executives. D. J. Boorstin '34. R. B. Schlatter...
...money by living in cheap lodgings, making her son's clothes, putting him in a charity hospital. She bullies her bankers. When she grudgingly gives money for a free clinic it is only for spite, to take business away from private practitioners. Throughout the years it is her aim to ruin a banker (Lewis Stone) who jilted her in her youth. During the Panic of 1907 she succeeds, unmoved by the fact that her son has married his daughter. When Hannah Bell at last finds out why the banker's pride forced him to leave her, she wanders...
...ambiguity, it is apparently planned to give primary consideration to participation in extra-curricular activities. Such a plan cannot e deemed to be in the best interests of the students. The extra-curricular activities deserve the encouragement of the College, but they should never be recognized as a primary aim for any student. The award of scholarships in the manner intimated by the Council would have the same effect as athletic scholarships in diverting attention from the real objects of the College...
...What an aim to live for mankind. . . . Chorus...