Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believe the most practical means to attain this end might be taken by the various local Harvard clubs all over the country. Each of these organizations might well have a press committee to take congnizance of the Harvard news printed in the local papers. Should an untrue story appear, these committees could at once bring the matter to the notice of the editor in charge. If vigorous action of this sort were employed, it seems reasonable to suppose that before very long, editors and correspondents would hesitate to print untrue, but nevertheless insidious, news items concerning Harvard...
...article by the Editor of the magazine shows the success that first scholars attain in their after life in the world at large,--thus clinching the argument. Equally interesting are the life records made by them as Mr. Thayer marshals his facts. Most of the first scholars have been not ministers but lawyers by profession, but often the lawyers have used the law as a ladder to public office. In the list are five United States Senators, ten Representatives, two ministers to Great Britain, three members of the Cabinet, three for- eign ministers, one members of the Continental Congress...
...between clubs which are members of the council this will be hard enough, and should differences arise between societies allied with the federated clubs and other institutions, an unprejudiced decision will be most difficult to reach. The officers of the Council of Federated Clubs must, if they hope to attain their ends, treat all organizations with strict impartiality, and appreciate the fact that priority in allying itself with the Council of Federated Clubs does not give an organization right to special consideration or superiority to other institutions of like nature in usefulness or ability to fulfill its object...
...often the case that an under-graduate entering an advanced course in the group "For Undergraduates and Graduates," finds a number of its members of the latter class. The under-graduate's work, because of his outside interests and narrower knowledge of the subject, naturally does not attain the standard set by the graduate, and the instructor is unwilling to check the progress of the more advanced students for the sake of the slower men. The result is that the undergraduate finds the work beyond him and can not in this case maintain as comparatively high a standard...
...value of the new system, so far as the first of these objects is concerned, depends upon the mode of insuring a sufficient amount of concentration on the one hand, and a broad enough distribution of courses on the other. Concentration is attained by providing that every student shall take at least six of his courses in some one field. Distribution is a less simple matter. It has been sesured by classifying all the subjects taught in college among four general groups, and requiring every student to take something in each group. In order to attain the second object, that...