Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...period of not longer than six months and not less than three months men will be gathered into great camps in the various sections of the country. During this time it will be the chief aim of the instruction to better the physical condition of the men and instil in them the rudiments of fighting upon which the whole complicated system of training might be built in the future...
...teach the ex-service man and to give him the benefit of a university education if he is worthy of it, is the aim of the war-work council of the Y. M. C. A. Its extensive program for education and training of the soldiers in Europe was halted by the sudden coming of the armistice and the immediate demobilization of the army...
...that the people of America may be moved by an undue prejudice against Japan, but friendliness to China must not imply animosity toward Japan. The real interests of Japan as well as of China require a policy of neutral helpfulness between the two countries and it should be the aim of America to act as the friend of both countries and to promote this policy...
Since the establishment of the system, practically no effort has been made to decrease the amount of required class work, the number of weekly tests, or routine labor. The work of individual investigation and reading with the tutor, which is the very aim of the system, has suffered, and has necessarily shrunk to an almost negligible amount...
...added individual work. Such a change would increase both the opportunity and responsibility of the student. Certain men would no doubt waste extra time given them; they are the same men who absorb as little as possible under the present system. But the ever-increasing number of students who aim to get the most out of their four years at a university would leave Harvard fitted to face the problems of the world from a broader and more scholarly point of view...