Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbia University, and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard went to the University of the State of New York (Albany) to receive LL. D.'s, at the college's 65th annual convocation. Said Harvard's Lowell: "The aim or goal [of American education] should be as remote as possible, consistently with its being not so far off that thought of it can be postponed for the present." Said Columbia's Butler: "If parents are to turn over the entire training of their children to school teachers and to abdicate their own just authority and responsibility...
...general adoption of a laxer attitude on the part of school and college authorities would unquestionably give rise to the growth of a class of pseudo students whose only aim in going to a large institution would be to compete in athletics as long as they could stay, and then, reputation earned, to find employment, athletic or otherwise, on the basis...
...like poetry to hit the mark, but we do not like it to aim," he said, discussing the teaching office...
...Last week he was at Capetown, South Africa, ready to depart with the Discovery, stout wooden ship used by the late Sir Robert Scott, who reached the South Pole (January 1912) one month after the late Roald Amundsen did. Sir Douglas does not intend to visit Commander Byrd. His aim is to explore the Antarctic coast south of Australia and prepossess it for his dominion. Formal and hurried pre occupation is important, for it would vest in Australia rights to fisheries and miner als which later may be found...
...club is also working on the speakers' program for the coming season. Its aim this year is to get men who are outstanding in their field. The quality of the speakers is to be maintained even at the expense of quantity. The list will not be completed for several weeks and the first address will not take place before November...