Word: aims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under him a school of applied science has been added. He plans further new schools of commerce, social sciences, agriculture, diplomacy. His aim is to make academic standards high and broad enough to attract students, whatever their national background. Of the French-English conflict in Canada he says, "How it will work out is in the hands of Divine Providence, but the situation is getting better among educated people...
...Aim of the study will be "to arrive at some ideas about what place the business man will occupy in the nation's future by looking back over his role in the past," Provost Buck explained. The research project, which has been financed by a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation, will be jointly sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Business Administration...
...post of "chairman" was to go to Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery; under him France's General Alphonse-Pierre Juin (now governor of North Africa) was to command all land forces; Britain was to get command both at sea and in the air. The ultimate aim was to weld five armies, standing at the West's frontier, into one army...
...Student magazine. The issue of student rights was raised. Because the old Council feared more disputes in the future, it asked the new one to take a crack at the entire question of who can stage rallies and publish magazines, and why and where and how. Its aim was to suggest an eventual codification of policy to University Hall...
...fifth Rockefeller enterprise, Helicóptero Comercial, S.A., was formed only last week. Its aim: to contract with São Paulo coffee growers to spray their plantations against the deadly broca borer. Rockefeller's technicians found out that ordinary aerial spraying was missing the bugs, but that helicopters, hovering just over the trees and beating the chemical dust right down to the ground, could get them every time...