Word: developer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These statements are very interesting; we should like to believe them, but such things have been heard before. Tesla once claimed he had invented a steam turbine one foot square that would develop one hundred and fifty horse power. An Italian gentleman residing in Boston announced that he had invented a perpetual motion machine, but a committee of government physicists showed him his error...
...Student life is less developed in France than in the United States, although athletics are coming to take a larger share of the students' interest. The students as a rule study very hard, in fact strenuous intellectual labor characterizes all teaching and learning in France. The graduate of the French engineering school is more highly trained from the point of view of pure science, but is perhaps somewhat weaker on the applied science and laboratory work than the American graduate of a similar institution. Each country has therefore something to offer to the other. It is perhaps undesirable to change...
...University at present that the prescribed seventeen, limited by the requirements of Concentration and Distribution, leave the prospective graduate with a feeling that somehow or other he is not getting even the cream off the milk. A half course for sub-freshmen on "What to Take in Harvard" might develop a man capable of choosing the most interesting, broadening and thoroughly satisfactory courses given in Cambridge; but, failing that, the great majority of undergraduates at the end of four years look back to an academic career full of mistakes in judgment and neglected opportunities. Sometimes a necessary History course conflicts...
Just such a situation is what the proposed Clearing House, it is to be hoped, will prevent, by establishing in the spirit of the mediaeval art guilds a national centre not only to develop art production, but to stabilize conditions so that a great art can be produced...
...rarities, they are said by library authorities to serve as a foundation for a good Portuguese library in both history and literature, and to include also books on economics and sociology. Mr. Stetson has made previous similar gifts to the University, and with his aid it is hoped to develop a noteworthy collection representing the literature and history not only of Portugal itself, but also of Brazil...