Word: aims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aim, it wasn't apparent...
Furthermore, it seemed very doubtful whether the bill was workable and enforceable-and would achieve its aim. Canada had outlawed the Communist Party-and then had to deal with a Red spy ring anyway. Canadian Communists had merely formed the Labor Progessive Party. Outlawing or suppressing a malignant party was perhaps a logical action. But the democratic way to deal with the Communists was to get and keep them out in the open, where they could be seen, recognized and observed...
...model themselves after the U.S.: "Americans have never had to be intelligent. America has grown rich and strong not because of its system of education but in spite of it. Only a wealthy and powerful country could survive an educational system so lacking in logic and ultimate aim...
...well the College has succeeded in this complex aim may best be measured by an evaluation of the individuals within it, an attempt to find out what Harvard has done for them and to them in the four long and significant years of their lives they have spent in Cambridge...
...spent by a Committee on the relation of Harvard and the student would certainly produce results as interesting and as significant as those of the General Education Committee. Such a group would at all events help to create a thesis or an ideal at which the College could aim. It might also, in the long run, create a more positive education than that which Henry Adams so clearly described, an education which would leave the mind of the student free, and make it alive as well...