Word: tend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...planning and following out his program of studies. In respect to this second point let me remark that in my three years at Yale no professor has made an attempt to give me an idea of the relationship of my various courses and of the end to which they tend. There are two reasons for this: (1) it is not part of our professors' job to give such advice, and (2) no one could do it with my courses anyway...
...list would lead one to suppose. It is the oldest scientific society in the country, having been founded at Boston in 1780 chiefly through the efforts of John Adams 1755, later President of the United States. Its purpose was and is to "cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance interest, dignity, honor, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people...
...welcomes to Cambridge the representatives of the British National Union of Students. As always in such displays, the debate tonight in Symphony Hall will be more than an exhibition of forensics; its larger meaning will not be restricted to respective arguments of negative and positive but rather will it tend to an actual exposition of a theory--that the strongest unifying bonds between two countries are those of its vouth and its intellect. Tonight's meeting combines both elements. The CRIMSON gladly recommends the contest as an antidote to that comedy of errors now taking place in Chicago...
...half dozen speeches violently critical of Governor Smith's record at Albany, might, if anything, rather tend to strengthen his cause: or at least they would not be of more worth than a few double-edged remarks as to the functions of the Apostolic Delegate in Washington. The public knows that in spite of the assertions of Messrs Mills and Roosevelt New York is a well-run state, but a certain portion of the voting public will always exult a mention of the vague menace which might somehow be said to emanate from the Vatican...
...Communist party has bitterly opposed the Government's policy toward China, M. Stalin vigorously defended the course which he has taken, after declaring that it has been and is as follows: 1) to support any considerable Chinese faction the activities of which are such that they tend to hasten the coming of a true revolution by the entire Chinese proletariat; 2) to withdraw support from Chinese revolutionary groups if and when they develop bourgois tendencies and desert the cause of proletarian revolt; 3) to expect that the Chinese revolution, in its true and final aspect, will be slow...