Word: objective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dean Hanford's view according to his 1942 report, the object of a liberal arts education is to "furnish students with an idea of the accumulated culture and experience of the human race, show them the continuity of the present with the past, and provide them with some understanding of the complicated world in which they live...
Being in communication with so many people, he is the object of a large and enthusiastic response in kind. TIME readers write in just to say they were happy to hear from him; others, on vacation or traveling abroad, send him all sorts of remembrances, from stamps & prints to African tribal drums. One reader, who had some harsh words to say, wrote them down on a two-foot asbestos shingle. Another advised from Australia that his daughter was on her way to attend school in the U.S. and that he could think of no safer escort from dockside to schoolsite...
...tough-with-Argentina policy. Marshall said he expected to settle that one within ten days. He soon gave evidence of what he meant. The Secretaries of War & Navy had advocated that the U.S. transfer a lot of its military equipment to Canada and Latin America, with the object of 1) nailing down the arms market; 2) standardizing and modernizing equipment throughout the Western Hemisphere; 3) thus bolstering hemispheric defenses...
...other courses. Substitution of essays for hour exams and quizzes won emphatic praise. Furthermore, the dstinctive, approach outlined for GE courses from the start has been upheld: that brief coverage of numerous topics within a subject must give way to more thorough treatment of strategic considerations. Here the object is to illustrate the nature of the problems in a particular field and suggest possible methods of solution through the presentation of carefully-selected segments of knowledge. In vindicating the heart-matter of the General Education proposals the response of the first-year men points in the final analysis to successful...
...other picture showed a mountain of potatoes near Foley, Ala., which had been drenched with kerosene by the U.S. Government to make them unfit for human consumption. Object: to keep the price of potatoes...