Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foster-mother Step-grandmother...
...purpose of the Tau Beta Pi is "to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honor upon their Alma Mater by a high grade of scholarship as undergraduates, or by their attainments as alumni; and to foster a spirit of liberal culture in the Engineering Schools of America...
...Putnam's object in establishing a fund for intercollegiate contests of a purely academic nature was twofold: to foster general interest in scholarship, and to enable the student to demonstrate his loyalty to his college through scholastic attainments. Desire to gain a place among the college's intellectual representatives might well stimulate the average undergraduate to scholastic endeavor, but it would scarcely serve as an added incentive to do well on the examination itself to any but the ten picked men if their names were announced before the event. Under the present Harvard plan, however, at least every student...
...York, 1928. $1.) and finds him pleasing to the eye and mind. The moral quality of loyalty, the mental quality of mastery, he finds, have made Smith what he is, and will, perhaps, make him what his many supporters hope he will be. There is a foreword by George Foster Peabody...
...original Andrew Jackson was their great-granduncle and great-grand-foster-father. Children of his own Andrew Jackson had none. But he adopted and named Andrew Jackson Jr. his dead wife's sister's son, descendant of Inventor Eli Whitney of cotton gin fame. The present Andrew Jackson, a Los Angeles realtor, and the missing Albert Marble Jackson, were brought up at "The Hermitage," historic Jackson plantation near Nashville, Tenn. Before vanishing, reputedly by steamer to Europe, Albert Marble Jackson is thought to have disposed of valuable Jacksoniana from "The Hermitage...