Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farm-born Colonel Deeds quit N. C. R. with his good friend Charles Franklin Kettering to develop the Delco ignition system for automobiles. In 1916 they sold out to General Motors for several millions and Mr. Kettering followed to become a pillar of G. M. Colonel Deeds became interested in aviation during the War. took charge of Government airplane production. He is largely credited with perfecting the Liberty motor. After the War he followed both electric machinery and aviation into Niles-Bement-Pond and Pratt & Whitney. As a director of National City Bank he stepped into the presidency of National...
...discussion of the new trend of the University suggested a more scientific approach to education instead of continuing the old plan of a "practical education." Louis Agassiz and men who thought as he did were eager to see more science and wanted the College to develop into a University in something like the European sense. Eliot, who had been elected to the Board of Overseers in July, was present during the discussions about the duties of the President. However, he took little important part in the meetings. A fortnight later, on the morning at the old Medical School in North...
...European university. Any man in broadened and matured by the necessity of adjusting himself to the life and customs of a foreign nation, where thought is centered around a core of practical philosophy considerably different from his own. The American student abroad has an excellent opportunity to develop the social and intellectual poise so necessary in later life. While the primary result of study in Europe is not definite in nature, as for example the factual knowledge which can be acquired at any good American university; it consists of the less material but more lasting goods of life. Of course...
...pastor, and a professor in the Princeton Theological School; he had a claustral and philosophic austerity that raised fears for the new administration among both students and graduates. Quite to the contrary of these forebodings, the new president made himself personally likeable in undergraduate circles and was able to develop Princeton from a college afflicted with minor growing pains, into a fullfledged university. Under him, study was started in law and engineering, and the enrollment doubled; new buildings were erected in great number and many endowments were secured. In 1902 he ended his peaceful term of authority to head...
...grateful acknowledgment of the progress of the University under his tireless guidance. A generation and more of Harvard men hold or President Lowell an affection that will endure long after the more transitory elements of the University as it is have dropped from mind. Only those men who develop a natural will to serve and ability to lead will be able even in small measured to exemplify his influence. President Lowell's influence i snot solely that of the president of a university. It is the influence of a great friend of mankind...