Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system has undoubtedly fostered more intellectual stimulation at Harvard than any other mechanical feature which has been introduced. It has served, more than anything else to breathe life into the education which the undergraduate receives. It has become, for an active minority, the backbone of undergraduate study and should develop into this very thing for the average majority. This will come about if it is discussed freely, as in the report, and if suggestions made by those working under the system, are carried out as far as they are feasible...
...most necessary tasks which must be accomplished. Excellent work on the part of a tutor should certainly be counted heavily in his favor when his promotion is considered. It is hardly necessary to state that a personable tutor, one who has the ability to interest his individual pupil, will develop into a more human, more understanding professor, than a young Ph.D. who has advanced to the stage of an occasional lecturer, but who cares only for his own scholastic advancement. Too much emphasis can never be laid on the necessity of securing more first-rate men on the tutorial staffs...
...Poetry Room in Widener was established in the hope that it might develop an interest in poetry amongst the undergraduates. There has long been a need at Harvard for something that will give a cultural background such as no course can provide. Only in so far as it can fulfill this purpose may the existence of a poetry room be justified...
Candidates for the photographic department are required to take and develop photographs of college subjects with CRIMSON cameras, a task calling for initiative and skill...
...mindedness with which the Engineering School gives instruction to members of the College who have a slight but not a burning interest in the subject is this course in engineering drawing, which presents the material in such a rigid framework that it is extremely difficult for the student to develop flexible methods in analyzing engineering drawing problems. To be sure, a large part of drafting consists in the knowledge of conventions, but convention stressed to the utter stifling of any individual attack on a problem is hard on any man who has been tutored in the mathematical world, for example...