Word: develope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poetry of Philip Edward Thomas, little known in the U. S., is worth acquaintance. Friend and follower of U. S. Poet Robert Frost, he had begun to develop a voice of his own when Death came...
...Spain to discuss the autogiro with de la Cierva. In 1928 he brought the first autogiro to the U. S. and with part of the fortune which he realized from sale of his profitable New York-Atlanta airmail route to the Curtiss-Keys group, he purchased the right to develop the autogiro in. this country. Thereafter he and the inventor worked silently and exceedingly hard-and practically solely with Pitcairn money-to bring the autogiro to a point of commercial feasibility. They formed Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Co., now Autogiro Co. of America, for engineering and development and to license other...
...Graduate School of Education, if it fulfills its purpose, will develop a philosophy of education, probably somewhat different from that of other schools. It will have its own opinion as to which road leads to the approachable, if unattainable, educational millenium...
...lowered to meet the capacities of the average student. Also boys of excellent character, though obviously unfitted for scholastic attainments, strain during their whole school life to get into college and then find it most difficult to stay there. The results are that the American universities no longer develop the best minds to their maximum degree, and many men who are not fitted for a scholarly life waste several years in attempting it, and often only succeed in losing some of their self-respect...
With the purpose in mind of getting the student to develop his own powers of initiative and self-guidance in study, the college gives every opportunity for letting him have as much freedom as he wants in pursuing his course of study under the close personal guidance of an adviser who knows what he is doing. There are about 155 students in the college and 15 advisers who have individual conferences with 12 men. In addition to the weekly conferences each of the two classes meet a group three times a week, when the work at hand is coordinated. Attendance...