Search Details

Word: aiming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Theatre Guild has shined up this unusual play with the rare Guild polish, and makes of it definitely one of the better things in the contemporary theatre. It aims higher than anything that has been done recently, and even in falling short of its aim, it still reaches an exhilarating and breath-taking altitude...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

...actual mechanics of educating. The problems of how and why are every bit as important and it is the answer to the questions that arise in the latter connection with which the School of Education is concerned. Any assistance that is given to help to accomplish this aim is a well directed and intelligent aid to the modern educational situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUST REWARDS | 12/14/1929 | See Source »

...potentially one of the most valuable ways in which the Society can be of service. It is unfortunate that the Bureau is not organized sooner in the year, but the small number of members until after the November elections is responsible for its late appearance. The aim of this type of tutoring is not identical with that of the coaching-schools that have mushroomed up around the Square. The art of studying is not to be learned the night before an examination; unless a man is willing to get, this sort of instruction earlier than the last minute, he must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNDERGRADUATE TUTOR | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...aim of this work is to teach men how, to study rather than to prepare them for specific examinations. Assistance may be had in various fields, among them Government, History, Economics, Romance Languages, Fine Arts, Mathematics, and Classics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRTY PHI BETA KAPPA MEN OPEN FREE TUTORING BUREAU | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...future bachelors of science to live under the cultural atmosphere and have the benefit of the social aspects of the House idea. The engineering students are too small in number to form an adequate group for themselves, all the more so since they have but a single scholastic aim. They are not yet graduate students. It is only just and reasonable to allow them to retain at least some of the advantages of college life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE LOOKING IN | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next