Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This system reduces the student from an individual to a mere absorber of knowledge. The University of Chicago hopes to develop an individual by its method of advancement by achievement." A brilliant student, unhampered by the indolent, will be able to make extremely rapid progress and he will have the advantage of personal contact with the professors. This type of education will require a faculty that is not only learned but that can teach as well. It is a glorified tutorial system...
...production has tended to reduce the beauty of volumes and to cheapen the workmanship. Students are apt to forget that binding, in years past, was as much an art as writing itself. A study of this kind can do much to create an understanding of artistic craftsmanship and to develop a very real appreciation of books in themselves...
...under the direction and supervision of editors. Then, after this experience is gained, the candidates devote more of their time to "scoops", or original, unassigned stories. The editorial competition consists of writing one editorial per day, while business candidates get advertisements and do some office work. Photographic candidates take, develop, and print pictures of events of interest to the University...
...Publisher Tichenor, The Sportsman Pilot will retain most of its present form. In Fore an' Aft increasing emphasis will be laid upon seaplaning, water-gliding, air-yachting. Editorially, Publisher Tichenor, disciple of Col. William ("Billy") Mitchell, will continue in all three to hammer upon his favorite notes: "To develop civilian flying for national defense; and to keep any more suckers from coming into this aviation business...
...throats of persons plainly suffering from colds. Those secretions they put through filters which were so fine that the smallest known germs could not get through. This filtrate they dabbed in the nostrils of perfectly healthy volunteers, among them girls of Goucher College, Baltimore. Enough of the "tests" developed colds to prove the filtrate the causative agent. Unfortunately Drs. Doull and Long have not been able to develop the virus in the laboratory. If that becomes possible or if the germ or germs which generate the virus are discovered, immunologists may develop a preventive for an annoying dis ease which...