Word: develope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organization of such students is the National Student Federation of America, founded at Princeton in 1925, "to give consideration to questions affecting students' interests . . . develop an intelligent student opinion on questions of national and international importance . . . foster . . . an enduring peace." Its most active membership is among the state universities of the Mid-West. Many a Harvard, Yale or Princeton man would have been startled to learn that he was being represented by a delegate from his own college at N. S. F. A.'s seventh annual meeting last week at the University of the City of Toledo. Ohio...
...have met with considerable success, as the popularity of the New Entrance Plan and the Scholastic Aptitude Test indicate. The tendency has been away from the pedantic checking-up of mere factual knowledge, in favor of emphasis on the fundamental qualities which it is the function of colleges to develop...
...whither he was beguiled from Egyptian researches, he was prepared to restate his original, but widely questioned belief that a phage was not a chemical but a living organism. A disease germ attacked by a phage goes mad. Its heredity changes; it usually becomes harmless. Unfortunately, some phaged germs develop into something even more virulent...
...progeny must go on paying a debt for which they were not responsible. They feel they are under a heavy yoke and they are growing rebellious. It is something that is readily understandable. . . . I'm not preaching any doctrine of cancellation but I'm trying to develop some of the psychology of the people that may have a direct bearing on this question...
...that it is the first place in the world where a man can work within a ten-minute walk of a quarter of a million people. Think how this expands the field from which we can choose our friends, our co-workers and contacts, how easy it is to develop a constant interchange of thought. I don't see why anybody anxious to see civilization and culture develop to its highest standard should complain about the size and congestion of New York. My only regret is that it isn't large enough to include kindred spirits all over...