Word: developing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tremendous blessings the Coue theory may bring about is better understanding of children. James Whitcomb Riley declared he thought children were always good if they were only understood, and he was right. The most natural of human desires is to merit approval, yet failure to properly cultivate and develop that desire is responsible for a great part of the world's misery...
What is true in the professions is true throughout American life. The dominant desire is to develop on one line regardless of the consequences in everything else. It is possible to picture human beings of the next century, with the tendency towards specialization carried to its logical conclusion, as mental "side-hill gougers", so much shorter on one side than on the other that they can wind round a hill only...
...American universities existed for both of those objects. This cryptic remark might be the subject of endless discussion. The aim of the American college should be, not to give its students the technical training and tools of their future occupation, but rather to fit them to be citizens, to develop those qualities that lead to the better life both for themselves and for the community...
...study to men who are unable to attend courses within the university. Although it already conducts hundreds of lectures in centres at a distance from its own campus, it now wishes to provide a man with the greater part of his schooling at home. And it hopes to develop service in a manner "consistent with the traditions of the university...
There will be a fencing tournament for beginners in Hemenway Gymnasium beginning tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. The object of this tourney will be to find and develop new material for the University team. The entries, now numbering nearly 20, have not yet closed and further entries may be given to one of the fencing managers before tonight. There is no entrance fee, and all entrants will be supplied with equipment for the duration of the meet. Coach Danguy has announced that he will present a foil to the winner of the tournament, and a fencing-glove...