Word: developing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...materialistic philosophies have tended to throw too much emphasis upon that which is immediately useful. This attitude adopted in the colleges crowns the athlete with laurel and scorns the scholar toiling alone in his garret. But more and more true scholarship is coming into its own. As American universities develop greater background they are placing greater emphasis upon intellectual values. The recognition most appreciated by the true student is that which, like the Guggenheim Fellowships, not merely acknowledges past merit but opens the door to continued study and greater achievement...
...years ago, settled in Cleveland. O. P., the elder by two years of these two quiet, clear-eyed, clear-headed young men, took an option on some pasture land three miles out beyond the farthest car line and began to subdivide it into building lots. They began to develop it and, after a time, found that they had to have transit lines, that they would have to furnish transit themselves. So they opened negotiations with the Nickel Plate Railroad, which had a right of way that they wanted, and in somewhat fabulous fashion concluded the negotiations by purchasing the whole...
...Baker '87, President Lowell, speaking before the Harvard Club of Washington this evening, stated that the Corporation felt that the 47 Workshop, although doing valuable work, must yield in its demands for expansion to more important departments of the University, in particular to the College where the development of the tutorial system is vital. He said that both he and the Corporation realized Professor Baker's personal value as an instructor but that "a theatre and a permanent school for playwrights would not be wise". The limitation of the funds of the University made it impossible to develop departments whose...
...worth on that capacity than does the faculty. But both will accept as psychologically sound the observation that the average student will do no or little scholastic work for which he receives no or little official credit. It is because of this complex that the tutorial system can not develop properly at present; and it is this same psychology which must be used in the future to foster its growth...
...wrote himself a reference, had cards made which declared him to be an. expert dock-clerk, entered Grace & Co., shippers. Quickly he rose, became rich in a time phenomenally short even for that era of expansion. He pounced upon every new idea, helped, with his own funds, to develop the automobile, the submarine, the airplane, the dynamite- gun. Growth, he believed, was a matter of interlacing of organization?a theory which he practiced in his own consolidating activities. A captain of industry, still he stuck to the sea, which had been gracious to him; he built, captained, the Grade...