Word: developing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Serious thought was given to asking the Y. M. C. A. to substitute for the Y. W. C. A. where the latter is not represented. The women, in 25 secret conferences, quashed the idea. "No man understands girls well enough to allow them to develop their own leadership. Men always do the planning and let the girls tag along."—Rhoda McCullough. But the Y. M. C. A. will be asked to cooperate with the Y. W. C. A. before entering new fields where the latter is not represented...
...small colleges at Harvard developed along such social lines, there would be no improvement over the present system. It is not likely, however, that they would so develop. Our undergraduate body, heterogeneous in comparison with most American colleges, is homogeneous in comparison with Oxford, which has students from every walk of life, every English-speaking country and state, every race, and every color. English youths, by the time they go to college, are heartily sick of public school conformity, and go in for rather extreme individualism: but over here, the desire to be "regular" outlasts school, and oven college...
...costly but valuable tutorial system, which will probably go down in Harvard history as the most important contribution to American education made by President Lowell's administration. But nobody knows how long it will be necessary to add to teachers' salaries or how long it will take to develop the tutorial system...
...curriculum of the "pass" man is designed to give him a respectable quantum of liberal information, that of the "honors" man, to develop his maximum power of original and constructive thinking. While both classes of students come in contact with and are guided by the tutors, the "honors" men meet their tutors much more frequently and intimately than the "pass...
...which, anomalous as it may seem, won the enthusiastic approval of representatives of Dartmouth. Amherst, and Yale, who commended the attitude of Director Bingham in the warmest terms. The diners were hardly prepared for this point of view from an official whose function it is supposed to be to develop winning teams at whatever cost, but as Mr. Bingham explained his philosophy surprise turned to admiration for it was recognized that here was a man destined to dignify college sports and to assure them a standing in the curriculum which they have been struggling for generations to attain...