Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientific competence. While some men can be successful with only a Bachelor's degree, the administration feels more and more advanced training is necessary to keep up with technological change. The undergraduate will gain a broad background of scientific training, but only a graduate student will be able to develop these fundamentals into unique skills and ideas...
Without required attendance at morning8Although M.I.T.'s "educate the whole man" policy has many facets, three of these are depicted above. To the left, the Institute's AFROTC cadets develop the military sides of their natures at Monday afternoon drill in the armory on Mass. Ave. A ROTC course is required for the first two years at M.I.T. In the center, however, a Tech student seems to be concentrating on the girls rather than on building a strong body to please the Administration. To the right, M.I.T. students find time to relax and "learn from each other" after a Meal...
...move to improve existing secondary school teaching, Harvard and M.I.T. have established a program to develop improved methods of instruction in the sciences...
Again, the factors have been recognized, but never analyzed or meticulously supported. The work done thus far raises far more questions that it answers. The biggest question of all, however, is whether the University will attempt to develop the student's work, analyzing and predicting the unknowns involved, or pursue the old policy of solving problems ten years after they become acute...
...even these changes cannot completely counteract the overall metropolitan pattern. Most people do not want to live in a slum even when their own home is a palace. The only alternative is to attack the existing pattern, trying to develop a new pattern through Urban Renewal...