Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Hillyer went on to indicate that another advantage of the conference system is that the students will be able to develop taste in writing, which is an individual question and cannot be worked out in large groups Furthermore, the system will fend to fit in more closely with the tutorial plan, which is becoming increasingly important in the college. Questioned whether there would be an increase of prescribed reading, he answered that, on the other hand, the men would be urged to develop their own fasts as much as possible
...August afternoon in 1870, in St. Clement's College at Metz, a serious dark-eyed boy was taking examinations for the Ecole Polytechnique, government military school at Paris. The professor of French composition, trembling with emotion, scrawled on the blackboard: "Develop this thought of Kléber's:? 'It is essential that the young train their faculties.' " Through the open window Student Ferdinand Foch heard the distant booming of Prussian cannon. He never forgot that afternoon...
Later a victorious Pomeranian regiment was quartered in the college with Ferdinand Foch and his schoolmates. The Pomeranians were great-bearded men. They smoked china pipes, smelled of beer and onions, scowled ferociously. Ferdinand Foch never forgot that either. It helped develop his faculties...
France and her allies are leading opposition based on the fear that an economic union will inevitably develop into a political union, a move which would be in direct contradiction to the terms of the Versailles and St. Germala treaties stipulating Austrian independence. France feels that the union will be extended further to include her allies, Roumania and Gzechoslovakia, in an attempt to create a Central European bloc under German leadership...
...figures Princeton has published. But they must not attach too much importance to them by failing to balance the numbers of huge incomes against the meager which make an $18,000 average. Nor must they fail to consider the conditions within the homes and the standards of living which develop under our systems of education. Unquestionably Princeton has done as much for her sons in these respects. perhaps more. Nevertheless a consideration for the vagaries such an investigation entails will serve to illuminate its limitations. --Yale Daily News...