Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prime feature of the Harvard report was its proposal for modifying the social life of a university of "mammoth proportions" in a way calculated to foster "healthy social intercourse and stimulating interchange of ideas" for the individual. The proposal was this: to subdivide Harvard residentially into six colleges constituted on the English university plan ? six bodies of students, 250 to 300 strong, housed in more or less segregated groups of dormitories, eating in their own dining halls, responsible to their own deans. The assignment of separate faculties is not included in the plan. The advantages were not elaborated beyond...
Friendliness in these huge institutions is confined to very small units, indeed, through no fault of the students, perhaps, since the structure of the university life affords no daily meeting ground for the interchange of amenities. The discouragement of intimate association, such as all colleges used to foster among all students, is one of the serious short-comings of the prodigious educational plants. It seems that some artifice must be adopted to make their atmosphere less gelid, and the most natural recourse is to attempt, by some such arrangement as the Harvard committee favors, to bring back to the university...
...difference between the standing of these two groups in the college can be traced, it seems, to two entirely different conceptions of education which the public and private schools respectively foster. In the public school a student gets the idea that education is solely a matter of attending classes and obtaining satisfactory grades. He spends a given number of hours a day in school, and the remainder at home or elsewhere in an atmosphere entirely divorced from that of his education...
...from working. If they went to work while breast feeding, their own children would suffer from irregular nutrition. Besides, the energy the mothers need for creating milk would go into work. They could go around as wet nurses. But there too the effect of irregular hours would tell. The foster baby would also probably suckle more milk than the nurse could spare from her own child's feeding. The latter would suffer...
Five brothers head and control Swift & Co., Chicago packers. These five are Louis Franklin, oldest and president of the company; Charles Henry, Edward Foster and Harold Higgins, all vice presidents; and George Hastings, who holds no official position but keeps up his interests...