Word: gradualism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without exaggeration it can be said that the Union is the social center of first-year life. Under one roof in its large dining hall, in its common rooms, its libraries, and its game rooms, there will take place as the year gets under way, the gradual integration of hundreds of new Harvard men from many parts of the world with highly diversified backgrounds and interests into another class unit. This is because it is in the Union rather than in the classrooms or on the athletic field that the men of 1937, those living at home as well...
...numbers; most of us read her less & less. Yet, remembering especially her early work, we are still aware of her presence in the background of contemporary literature-and we picture her as the great pyramidal Buddha of Jo Davidson's statue of her, eternally and placidly ruminating the gradual developments of the processes of being, regis- tering the vibrations of a psychological country like some august human seismograph whose charts we haven't the training to read." Such esoteric experiments as Have They Attacked Mary He Giggled-A Political Satire, Lucy Church Amiably, Tender Buttons and her monumental...
...United States under instruction. Courses at Cambridge in biology, chemistry, and geology followed quickly in those days when Boston was floating on the flood-tide of a renaissance of intellectual interests, and the brilliant foreign professor Louis Agassiz intoxicated the sages of Concord with natural history. The gradual enlargement of these courses into a regular Summer School of Arts and Sciences and its subsequent growth was but the work of time...
...doctor was summoned, said that the paralysis was caused by a light stroke of apoplexy, that gradual recovery was probable. Joe Humphries balked when the doctor suggested a hospital, went instead to a nearby boardinghouse. The second day he had regained enough muscular control to smoke a cigaret...
...individual's inherent abilities. Gua, treated as a human child, behaved like a human child except when the structure of her body and brain prevented her. This being shown, the experiment was discontinued. Donald went with his parents to Indiana University at Bloomington, and Gua after "a gradual habituating process" was returned to Professor Yerkes to learn the prison life of other U. S. chimpanzees...