Word: development
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Another significant innovation involved petitioning the legislature for property tax exemptions, which paved the way for Harvard to develop its vast real estate holdings, now worth billions, including more than one-third of the land in Cambridge. Becoming financially independent was the first step to severing Harvard's ties to the state 75 years later...
Another reason for the program's success, according to Rivers, is its flexibility. "I believe in giving people a chance to develop their own ideas," she says, adding that the writing requirements for language courses now focus on creativity--"things people will enjoy writing and discussing with other students...
...want to assume that everyone's going to take a single magical cluster of courses," Federman says. "We want to develop new courses to, is a sense, get around the Chem 20 bottleneck," says Verba...
...attempt to get at some fundamental dimension which I would like to call analytical thinking, one of the keystones of an even larger concept: that of learning how to learn. Having stated that I think we teach this somewhat better than most places, let me go on to develop the issue of how fundamental it is to our intellectual life and to suggest that Harvard must do an even better job at this...
Realizing that because pre-medical worries focus disproportionately on the five full-year courses required for medical school admissions, several members of the College and Medical School faculty, in tandem with a group of College administrators, have been working informally for the past year to develop a uniform strategy for easing the pressure. The group includes Dowling, Dr. Daniel D. Federman and Dr. James Edelstein, both of the Medical School, and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba...