Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life. Basic trouble at Princeton, he thought, was the clubs. President McCosh had suppressed the Greek-letter fraternities; but their successors, the upper-class eating clubs, were just as bad. ''The side shows are swallowing up the circus," was Wilson's famed remark. "There is danger that we will develop socially, as Harvard did and Yale is tending to do." In 1906 he had been president of Princeton for four years. At a meeting of a sympathetic Board of Trustees he proposed a quadrangle plan: to have the undergraduates live, almost self-governing, in small colleges presided over...
There is a general sentiment among those who have played hockey and would like to continue to develop their interest in this sport, that the college is not providing the facilities to allow an appreciable number to participate in the game. Hockey is supposedly a major sport, yet there are a scant sixty members of the university who are getting regular experience in this event. Compare this number with any other sport, football, baseball or even the recognized minor sports, squash, swimming, and wrestling for example. The entrants in each of these far exceeds the few represented in hockey...
With the present system Harvard cannot hope to develop players; it is simply using the material that it is given. The sport has a large following, and it seems absurd that the lack of facilities should so hamper the development of the game and enjoyment in it. H. C. Thacher...
...dissent expressed in past years against the language requirements and the methods provided for meeting them reflected itself last fall in the modification of French 2. The change was an attempt to eliminate some of the mechanical details ordinarily associated with elementary courses, and to develop more literary interpretation and appreciation. By exchanging the old composition book for a new and more satisfactory volume, and by altering the outside reading system. It was hoped to remove from French 2 much of the taint which all required courses seem to possess...
...conflicts with the accomplishment of any real educational purpose, it is certain that the American campus has not even a serious political interest to its credit. As long as all of the student's time is not going to be devoted to academic pursuits, he would do better to develop some sound outside interests which he can carry on in later life...