Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should like to have tutorial work limited or reduced in the case of pass men, but they ought to be given a chance to develop an intersect with the tutor. I think everyone ought to pass a general examination, but there might possibly be an advanced part for honors men. I should like to see course teaching limited to cases where the lecturer has subjects to treat of personal interest in which he is active, and to a few elementary courses. In general I should like to see the tutorial work replace as far as possible...
...When, however, the instruction to use the right hand is given very early in childhood and if it is given without severity but with kind persistency then such trouble need not develop. No such difficulties have been met by my brother, nor with two of my boys who were born lefthanded...
...York Evening Post was the only Metropolitan newspaper to develop the story in Chemist Jean Piccard. The article swiftly became a significant, lucid disquisition on identical twins, i.e., twins conceived in the same ovum as were Auguste & Jean Piccard.* Said Chemist Jean Piccard: "It is a well-known fact that usually one of two identical twins is left-handed while the other one is righthanded. It is well known also that there are many more left-handed persons who never had any twin...
...Roosevelt's efforts at remote control of Congress from Albany week before had produced mostly confusion and misunderstanding between him and his Washington followers. To clear up difficulties and develop a Congressional program which might avert a special session after March, he had summoned to his Manhattan home Speaker Garner, Democratic Senate Leader Robinson, Senators Harrison, Pittman, Byrnes and Hull, Representatives Rainey, McDuffie, Collier, Byrns and Rayburn. Also on hand were Democratic Chairman Farley, Professor Moley of the "Brain Trust" and Col. Howe, the President-elect's alter...
...would be delighted to see tutorial work absorb a larger portion of the time of students than it does now, because it develops more independence and does not stiltify students' minds by predigesting everything for them. Also it is far more flexible in dealing with individual students' needs than courses. However, trying to tutor an apathetic student is a ghastly job. No one profits by it. So I am in favor of tutoring only those who want. it, as signified by being out for honors or otherwise. The temptation to allow tutoring to develop into cramming for divisionals...