Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...university is to be something more than a more trade school, if it is to foster a broad education and a cosmopolitan point of view, all undergraduates must be free to take part in those phases of college life which are not included in the curriculum. The charge that the scientific mind is usually self-centered is not altogether without foundation; absorbed in his experiments, the student of the natural philosophy too often loses sight of the world around him. It should be possible to place the student in the science group upon a par with his classmates...
...League is working for the development of a type of thinking rather than for the indorsement of specific programs. That doubtless accounts for the attacks of some of the radicals at the Convention and for subsequent fulminations of certain reactionaries. It is the immediate purpose of the League to foster liberal college groups which shall endeavor to inform themselves on problems of the day by calling in the Goliaths from all camps each to champion his special cause...
...Entertainment Committee, of which Richard Stewart Bowers of Brookline has been appointed chairman, will be enlarged somewhat this year. It plans to run and will be incharge of several Freshman "get, together" meetings, at which there will be music and refreshments. In this manner it hopes to foster class unity and promote acquaintance between men from different schools. Definite plans will be announced later...
...graduate student at a large university often feels himself a stranger within the gates. The question of uniting him more closely to his foster-mother is handled in an editorial admirable for its understanding of the situation and for the remedy it proposes. It deserves serious consideration by all graduate students, and by undergraduates as well...
HARVARD. YALE. Bacon, l.w. r.w., L. Foster Buntin, l.c. r.c., Shiras Bigelow (captain), r.c. l.w., Bulkley Baker, r.w. l.c., Griscom Owen, c.p. c.p., Carson Humphrey, p. p., Van Ingen Holmes, g. g., Root...