Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plan. One of the main purposes of pass-fail is to encourage students to experiment in courses outside their field of competence that they would not risk taking for a grade, he said. "But if pass-fail means an extra burden -- a fifth course -- it is not likely to foster much experimentation," Norr concluded...
...play itself was sharply criti- cized. (One scene in the play shows a "typical" democratic election candidate stuffing a ballot box.) Sherman Adams, Driberg reports said it might do serious damage to the cause of democracy in Asia. Ambassadors cabled protests, and John Foster Dulles notified embassies that MRA had no official standing. Vice-President Nixon tried to get the tour stopped...
...convinced that many more inmates should be paroled. For prison experience unquestionably boosts the chance that an offender will break the law again. In one experiment, conducted by the California Youth Authority, a group of convicted juvenile delinquents were given immediate parole and returned to their homes or foster homes, where they got intensive care from community parole officers. After five years, only 28% of this experimental group have had their paroles revoked, compared to 52% of a comparable group that was locked up after conviction...
Reischauer stated that the United States has ignored the fact that nationalism stands as the chief barrier to a Communist takeover of Asia. He argued that, instead of working against Asian nationalism, the U.S. should foster it by offering greater economic and technical...
Sophomore Nayar received the Foster Trophy, given annually to the University champion. Nayar joins a distinguished group of Harvard champions. "He measures up well," Barnaby said...