Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...predictions of latent strength and coordination. The defeat of a major rival in these days is only part of a composite goal that Harvard teams strive for and usually gain. To produce an unbeaten team is no longer the all in all of Harvard athletic policy nor the sole aim of Harvard supporters. For it is most certainly true that the idea of sports for the sake of sports is ever gaining a larger following among college students in the East, if not alumni, than might have been fancied some years...
...Harvard team confidence in its ability to halt the touted Eli power plays. The Crimson offense, too, has received its share of polishing up; tomorrow's game should find it clicking at top speed. Better timing and greater speed in the execution of running plays has been the aim of the Harvard mentors...
...opinions of the graduates and underclassmen obviously coincide with the idealistic motive for athletics. Sports, like any other diversion, are for the good of the majority and not to provide games in the spirit of the Roman spectacles. The perfectly organized athletic system would not be one stressing the aim of quality at the expense of quantity. The aristocracy of ability which football creates should be counterbalanced by the democracy of the minor sports, and it is this aim that the movement at Purdue is defeating...
...draw your attention to the fact that a committee exists which aims at performing just that function and moreover provides the books it recommends. The Library Committee of the Harvard Union meets every month and makes a selection from, the current literature of every kind and the books selected are added to the library. The constitution of the committee, which is representative of the Faculty, the Tutors, and the Undergraduates, ensures a catholicity of taste, and the aim of the committee has always been to meet the needs of the present generation of students, as well as to assemble...
...square chin is softened by the fact that it tops a neck like that of a warbling thrush or bullfrog. But the mustache is close-clipped, businesslike, and the hard, unflickering hazel eyes keep their level aim behind efficient, rimless glasses. Appropriately L'Americain is of mixed blood, with a faint ancestral dash of German...