Word: fostering
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...they couldn't see the future either. The Indians had an illusion of their own, even more magnificently mistaken than the captains' vision of the Northwest Passage: peace everlasting with this strange new race. The corps carried shiny medallions to foster this dream. The coins showed President Jefferson on one side and a symbolic handclasp on the reverse...
...proposed sending representatives from each of the city's existing lay councils to a central, deliberative "All-Parish Council." Cardinal Law, notoriously mum on his role in the abuse scandals, spoke up almost instantly against the idea, letting it be known that Boston's pastors were not to "join, foster or promote" the group, on the ground that it would compete with an existing panel. Bane called Law's response "astonishingly stupid" given that neither the idea--nor the people involved--were radical. "Lay organizations can't force the leadership to acknowledge them or give them power," she says...
Science is becoming ever more interdisciplinary, Hyman said. As a result, Harvard needs to do more to foster collaboration between departments and between its schools...
...most sense. Professors and students within a graduate school share intellectual interests and resources in order to pursue common goals, and it makes little sense to force students to take a bus to get from one class to another. In addition, concentrating graduate school campuses in one area would foster community among graduate students, improving both their quality of life and the scope of their scholarship...
Rather than an elite cadre of future world leaders, let us be known as an all-enduring assemblage of eccentric, compulsive dorks. Harvard, for all its opportunities and endowment and superiority, certainly does one thing superbly: foster the hidden psychoses of its strange and extraordinary students...