Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman journeyed from Independence, Mo. to Manhattan's Doctors Hospital, on the way acquired a baseball and glove for their just-arrived grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel, first child of their daughter Margaret and New York Timesman son-in-law Clifton Daniel. Asked if he hoped the baby would grow up to be President, the ex-Chief Executive said he wouldn't wish that on anybody, later gave a no-nonsense description of the young Democrat: "It looks like all babies two days...
There is a second reason for expansion, totally unrelated to any idealistic duty, which Dean Bundy hastens to point out to anyone who may consider expansion a radical or extraordinary proposition. The college, he says, has a natural tendency to grow in harmony with the constant growth in human knowledge. College faculties are continually expanding to incorporate new fields of study, and a rise in student enrollment to meet this expansion is only natural. Such a process of gradual growth has been going on at Harvard for some time and will undoubtedly proceed for many years to come...
...task involved in any expansionist program. Any increase in the student body must be accompanied by growth of the faculty. The Program for Harvard College has allocated $5 million for the establishment of about 12 new Chairs. But the junior teaching staff--instructors and teaching fellows--must also grow, and it is to this increase that the opponents of expansion point with alarm...
...expansion in the other. But Dean Elder and many others would oppose any increase in graduate enrollment that would break sharply the present proportion of size between the GSAS and Harvard College. If the College is able to expand 15 to 20 per cent, the graduate school could probably grow a similar amount, but no more...
...demands placed upon the teaching fellow and upon the professor by the student will, in all likelihood, grow heavier in the next few years. As the level of undergraduate intelligence rises the demand for a deep and more creative teacher will grow stronger. That the level of intelligence is rising is obvious--the class of '56 scored a median of 583 on its Standard Achievement Tests while the median for the class...