Word: object
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...four main objects, set forth in another column of this morning's CRIMSON, the Council of Federated Clubs adopts a business-like policy for attaining its ends. In preventing conflicts in dates and in the clubs mutually in touch with each other, unanimity of feeling and action can be brought about, which will enable the council's third object, the general discussion of matters of wide interest and significance, to become of importance...
...view of these considerations the Players' Club has been organized to meet the need for an association whose object is to unite the best actors in the University and give them practice in acting. P. D. SMITH...
...Dramatic Club, on the other hand, places great stress upon the writing of plays, another field of wide interest and one which may well form the sole object of a society. The Dramatic Club has, however, established a wide reputation for presenting to the public the best that Harvard has to offer in the lines of both writing and acting, and has been favorably recognized by many outsiders. Moreover, its organization for managing the financial and executive branches of a public production is efficient and firmly established...
Although the action of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Governing Boards upon the suggestions of the committee does not fall strictly within the period covered by this report, yet the changes are now in substance complete. The object to be attained was two-fold: first, to require every student to make a choice of electives that will secure a systematic education, based on the principle of knowing a little of everything and something well; second, to make the student plan his college curriculum seriously, and plan it as a whole. This is pre-supposed by the theory...
...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...