Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University plans to devote the bulk of its allocation to astronomy, chemistry, physics, and the medical sciences. According to the will of the late Eugene Higgins, the income must be used "to foster education in natural and physical science, to promote the general advancement of science by investigation, research, and experiment, and to encourage the application of the knowledge so obtained to the improvement and benefit of mankind...
...case in duels, seconds are of inestimable value in preserving life and limb of the combatants. Neither Bullard nor Wallack desired to witness bloodshed the next morning, so they conceived the unsporting idea of loading the pistols with powder only. This plan they communicated to the ferocious Mr. Foster, who on reflection had lost much of his enthusiasm for the contest. Foster therefore heartily agreed to the boax, and we may suppose that he spent a much more restful night than did his unenlightened opponent...
...next morning found the two gentlemen and their seconds at the appointed place--a lonely wood east of Cambridge. After the preliminaries of loading the pistols, without shot, and of walking ten paces, Foster aimed directly at English, and English aimed directly into the air. As this produced no effect whatsoever, except a loud noise, a second exchange was ordered--by Foster. Again the aggressor aimed at English, and English again aimed straight upward...
...aiming procedure was among the best of nineteenth century dueling practices--the so-called delope. The act of firing into the air was simply a semi-honorable way of announcing "I'm scared to death, couldn't we possibly call this thing off?" English at last perceived, however, that Foster's honor would not be satisfied without being fired upon. Consequently, on the third exchange English levelled his bead and pulled the trigger. Foster fell dramatically to the ground, and English, thinking his opponent dead or wounded, left the field. Thereupon, Foster resurrected himself and proceeded back to Cambridge...
...yawning in chapel brought students punishment, one could hardly expect the Faculty to look kindly on students' playing with pistols--loaded or not. Although the Harvard duel was a harmless one and actually amusing, the professors and tutors were irate. After "long and painful consideration" they solemnly admonished Foster, English, and the two benign seconds...