Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inclined to feel that the ultimate success of the House Plan will depend upon the loyalties which each House can develop among its members. By these loyalties we are not referring to petty rivalries between Houses, but rather to an appreciation that the House means just a little bit more than the collective accomplishments of its individual members; that extra, intangible quantity without which no institution can long exist...
Obviously, it will take some time to develop this esprit de corps, as it were, but perhaps--in time--to live in a House will mean a bit more than a place to study, to eat, and to sleep. Perhaps it already does...
...establishment of the new plan immensely increases the opportunities given to younger men to develop their abilities and equip themselves more effectively as teachers and scholars," he writes. . . . "Too often younger men, on this or any other college faculty find it difficult to save from routine duties in teaching enough time for their individual reading and research, and inevitably men who are thus handicapped are delayed in realizing their full potentialities, or are possibly sometimes prevented al- together from achieving the excellence they otherwise might...
...langlauf, cross country work, lies Harvard's chief weakness, as there are at present no experienced men in this event. From now until the Carnival it will be the principal object of skiers and coaches to develop a few good candidates either from the third class or the novice material...
First, the tutor tries, if he can, to communicate to the student some of his own enthusiasm; to awaken in him a zest for intellectual adventure; to help him develop a serious scholarly interest, in the pursuit of which he will want to drive forward under his own power...