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Word: fostering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immature even to consider a full-time job or marriage. Now they are physiologically almost ready for these responsibilities, but are still stuck in the high schools they have outgrown. No wonder they listen to Motley Crue. Our educational system has become perversely destructive; that which was designed to foster growth is stunting it instead...

Author: By Stephen L. Ascher, | Title: Growing Pains | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

Your inaccurate reporting of my comments in yesterday's Crimson suffested that I disapprove of Dean Spence's efforts to foster increased hiring of minority faculty. I did not comment upon Dean Spence's efforts in prior years to promote affirmative action. On the contrary, I supported his recent efforts, but in doing so, I did not intend to criticize him for failure to take action at some earlier time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Affirmative Action | 4/20/1988 | See Source »

...Secretary of Education, William Bennett, voiced these concerns with customary verve when he spoke at Sanders Theater in October 1986. "Where are our colleges and universities," he asked, "on the issue of their responsibility to foster moral discernment in their students? With the exception of a relatively few places--mostly religious or military institutions--higher education is silent." When asked about efforts such as the moral reasoning courses in the Core Curriculum, he replied: "That's about [moral] dilemmas, lifeboat stuff. I don't mean theory. I meant getting drugs off campus." Alas, the debate was never squarely joined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From Bok's Annual Report | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...George Foster of the Cincinnati Reds hit 52 homers in 1977. Yankees Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were the last American Leaguers to reach the half-century mark in 1961. Maris hit 61 and Mantle clubbed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Answers to the Crimson Baseball Quiz | 4/12/1988 | See Source »

...been to shuffle through the many ideas and impressions we encountered in a mere nine days. It is difficult to define the exact purpose of our exchange with the Soviet Union. A number of delegates felt uncomfortable with the idea that we were part of some grand plan to foster mutual understanding between peoples. Were we really there to work toward some sort of peace and to be emissaries of democracy? It was easier for us to view ourselves as friendly American college students than as dictionary sources of democracy. It was 16 Americans and a dozen or so Soviets...

Author: By Anna V.E. Forrester, | Title: Students Peek Behind the Iron Curtain | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

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