Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholars into his student body of 8,000 President Conant will be satisfied. But he hopes to persuade the rest to cheer learning from the sidelines. For: "It is not sufficient to train investigators and scholars; a large body of influential citizens must have a passionate interest in the growth of human knowledge...
...hope for the future is that there will be more professorial appointments in the department so that general human psychology may be represented as well as the fields of social, animal, abnormal, and child psychology. A larger laboratory will eventually be a necessity in this growth; more support in the way of equipment will give the opportunity for the spreading out of the department...
...second course, Economic Balance will examine the conditions of steady growth, and some of the principal theories of instability in the economic system. It will also include a consideration of a few of the leading proposals for promoting stability, such as control of investment and credit, and the maintenance of purchasing power...
...human mind which is essential to civilization, there must be a true reverence for learning in the community. It is not sufficient to train investigators and scholars, no matter how brilliant they may be; a large body of influential citizens must have a passionate interest in the growth of human knowledge. It is our ambition to inspire the undergraduates in Harvard College with an enthusiasm for creative scholarship and a respect for the accumulated intellectual treasures of the past. This is one way in which we today perpetuate learning to posterity...
...noble aim, but if Harvard is to remain a college as well as a university it cannot be the only aim. The great bulk of undergraduates who are not creative scholars do not come here solely to be infused with "a passionate interest in the growth of human knowledge." For since they are never themselves to contribute to that growth, their function would be purely passive. They are here to receive an intellectual training which will enable them better to cope with the problems of society. It is a noteworthy fact that nowhere in his report does Mr. Conant...