Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...develop a Milne play like Mr. Hopkins. His deft hand is always there to give a push where the fragile dramatic fabric can stand it, to give gentle support where the stuff is sheer. Actor Calhern, having owed himself a good performance since his appearance in The Tyrant, makes a splendid baffled member of Parliament. If you can stand whimsy in stiff doses, Give Me Yesterday is recommended...
...find and develop the hidden gifts of childhood is the purpose of modern creative education, according to Hughes Mearns, Professor of Education at New York University. Education, he feels, should preserve and enrich the original endowments of the child, rather than crushing these innate talents under the heavy weight of adult philistinism. Mr. Mearns criticism of present education is really an indictment of modern society as a whole. In attacking the unimaginative and conventional in teaching, he is aiming at the same quality in American civilization in general. As the New Humanists would have it, Mr. Mearns is opposing...
There is no sound motivation in "Elizabeth the Queen" and little attempt to develop a strikingly dramatic situation. Instead the author resorted to rather cheap heroics and shoddy situations to carry the power. The last scene, for carry the power. The last scene, for example, where Elizabeth decides that England means more to her than the life of her lover has real dramatic strength and poignancy. But the drama dwindles off into labored phrases and district hysteria; not the kind of situation one usually associates with Elizabethan gestures...
With many universities emphasizing, as Harvard is, higher learning in the liberal arts, there is a distinct need for good "colleges" of the Chicago type. Whether or not such "colleges" do develop the professional schools would make no mistake in studying some plan for the admission of specially able men who have a general education, even though they have no degree...
...students into the field. Organizing the Division as an entity gives the study of Sociology unity due to the integration of the courses comprising it. Also the full-time professors in the new department having more time to devote to their specialty and fewer restrictions will be able to develop their own ideas and methods of teaching unhampered by the limitations of another Division. Above all there will be greater opportunity for the presentation of new material in a field in which Harvard has been particularly weak in the past...