Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of the large number now in English A-1 the University night find it necessary to provide more instructors, appointed on the basis of their capacity to reach technique or to foster creative writing. With a few additional instructors, more individual conferences, of the highest importance to the student, would be possible. Through such a division of English A-1 the needs of two hundred who hold different objectives but are thrown together almost at random could be corrected to a degree consistent with the significance of learning how to write...
...requesting an investigation by the Harvard Student Council, Merwin K. Hart, Jr.'40 and Sidney Q. Curtiss '40 have charged the ambulance committee with the collection of money under false pretences. They declare that although the money was collected to aid the wounded in Spain, it was used to foster Communism in what they consider a Communist mass demonstration. They interpret a letter to the CRIMSON by John L. Davidson '38, a member of the undergraduate committee engaged in collecting the funds, as official assurance that the ambulance would not be used for such a purpose. The fact that...
...headlines insisting that "fullest knowledge" be given the public of last fortnight's United Air Liner crash in Utah (TIME, Oct. 25), four experts of the Bureau of Air Commerce with three assistants were converging on the scene of the wreck. Chairman of the investigating committee, Milton C. Foster, delayed proceedings two days by traveling to Utah by Pullman. Official findings are not likely to be released for many weeks, but last week the known facts of the accident were...
...American Newspaper Guild-which recently reported 13,328 members to its foster parent, the Committee for Industrial Organization-divided victories last week with the press associations...
...fact that "dinner table education" was far from a complete success here at Yale. It was then reaffirmed that one of the main purposes of the college plan, as originally conceived, was to make the men on the faculty more accessible to undergraduates, and in so doing to foster that friendship between mature men and students which is so valuable to both. In addition, it was pointed out that many colleges seemed to have neglected this aspect of college life, for in some of them it was an extraordinary event when a student lunched or diner with a professor...