Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goal of the Fund is to attain as near a 100 percent subscription list as possible, and the class of 1926, through the newly-adopted medium of the Fund, last year achieved a larger percentage than any preceeding class...
Harvard will undoubtedly first attain the goal, but it seems that Princeton achieves greater success on the way, for no break is ever sufficiently great to cause an eruption--the Four-Course Plan was after all but a faltering step toward absolutely voluntary attendance at lectures no more than recommended by preceptors, absence of classes, and post-vacation examinations. Harvard, on the other hand, has greater freedom for students in the matter of lecture attendance, has now instituted something of post vocational exams, and the daily recommendation by the CRIMSON of certain worthwhile lectures is evidence that the students...
Belgium is a sturdy old gentleman of mixed Franco-Teuton stock who has hundreds of highly industrialized factories, and many more intensively cultivated farms. His foreign policy is international, easy to state, based squarely on self-interest, hard to attain. It is Peace Throughout Europe?for Belgium is the unhappy cockpit in which European wars are fought...
...speaks of a betrayal. Of his betrayal by Mirelli, who killed himself because of the proof that he wished to give him that it was easy to obtain from you (if you will pardon my saying so) what Mirelli himself had failed to attain...
...then, is it possible to attain to a view of life as something of intrinsic value? The answer to this question entails a complete philosophy of life which each man must construct for himself. My own feeling in the matter is that one gets an experience of infinite worth in certain relations with fellow-men. A real friendship may be the means of giving a lasting sense of values to the men bound by this tie. Hard work of the Carlyle or Emerson type is a possible answer to this riddle...