Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aim of "Non Sabrina Men" to recapture Sabrina. They too had a Sabrina song...
...concerning Harvard policy and educational trends, as well as national affairs, a function which no existing local publication taken as the sole basis of its endeavors. The periodical will contain articles by men beyond the narrow pale of Harvard life, a field until recently untrod by undergraduate editors. The aim of the Critic's board will be to express all shades of opinion, and will shun a literary, highly intellectual flavor. The monthly evidently purposes to be in the thick of the battle, printing every side of the issues discussed, avoiding an ex cathedra tone...
...obvious that graduate study ought primarily to be a training in independent research, since the scholar's aim is not merely to master the present body of knowledge, but to increase it. Ideally, many courses, now open to graduates ought to exclude them, since such courses frequently take a year or half-year to dole out information which the student himself could assimilate in a fraction of that time. (History courses are notorious offenders in this respect.) At the worst, such courses ought to direct the graduate to fruitful subjects of original research; these are frequently remote from the main...
First, in the matter of academic freedom, one must bear in mind that the City College is partly supported by the New York City government. The city's main aim in the welfare of its citizens, and it believes that such welfare is promoted by the presence of college educated men. If the City College instead of turning out useful people and good citizens becomes a center for seditious and turbulent individuals, the city authorities and taxpayers may be justified in viewing the situation with disapproval. To be sure, the professors and students should be at liberty to think what...
...French aim is to draw Russia out of her former close friendship with Germany, a maneuver made possible by the fact that the Reich now has a "Cabinet of Monocles," extreme reactionaries who are anathema to Communists. France, though no real friend of Russia, hopes to stimulate her trade with the Soviet Union, especially in view of London's trade rebuff to Moscow last week (see p. 15) and at all costs France wants to isolate Germany from Soviet military...