Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The family into which Arthur Compton was born 43 years ago in Wooster, Ohio, is something for students of heredity and environment to cluck over. The father is Elias Compton, Ph.D., D.D., Presbyterian clergyman, longtime professor of philosophy and psychology at the College of Wooster. The mother is Otelia Catherine...
If the right man were found, he would succeed in creating an environment which would encourage a changed undergraduate attitude. By supporting drinking and attacking only its abuses, no man could sincerely dispute him. Any such solution which offers the student body the factors conducive to a more intelligent understanding...
Herriot's Beethoven is not only eloquently written but shows a rich understanding of Beethoven's music and the environment in which he lived. Author Harriot visited Bonn, pictures the mean airless garret in which little Ludwig was born, the courageous mother who had been a servant girl...
"In our privately endowed universities," states Mr. Dodds, "the free play of thought finds its most favorable environment. Their tendency is towards social balance and orderly growth. In addition to motive power, they provide a politically confused society a balance wheel which no state controlled institution can supply."
"I am in hearty agreement with the President and fellows of Harvard College about the importance to the public weal of increased support for endowed institutions of learning. Among the finest of our free institutions, and most resistive to political domination are our privately supported colleges and universities. In them...