Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became one of the strongest advocates of the tutorial system and spared no effort to strengthen it. He was also instrumental in carrying out the National Scholarship Program and travelled around the country to interview prospective candidates...
...kind. Surely there must be other parents like myself. Where are you? Let's band together and do something for our children." Summoned by this appeal, a determined band of parents in 1949 founded the New York State Association for the Help of Retarded Children to strengthen and direct their demands for better clinics and training schools for feeble-minded children. A new book growing out of the association's work, Retarded Children Can Be Helped (Channel Press; $5), by LIFE Reporter Maya Pines and Photographer Cornell Capa, describes arid illustrates the latest techniques that can help...
...reduced crowding, the University will be able to approach the ideal, but sheer weight of numbers and dictates of the budget make a return to the system of the early '30's highly unlikely. Increased funds from foundations, and perhaps a reapportionment of some University funds, can undoubtedly strengthen the tutorial program, but it is apparent that the University will be forced to explore new methods of insuring an adequate measure of faculty-student contact...
...beginnings" in the Cow Pasture across the Charles River, a group of Harvard Alumni from the Boston area made the smalle beginninges of the Harvard Club of Boston. This was more than forty years after New York alumni, over 200 miles from the home college, had first assembled to strengthen the silver cord to their Alma Mater...
...move to strengthen the school was initiated in 1944, when the Overseers' Committee to visit the Divinity School reported the need for a "robust and active" school. O'Brian was appointed to head a committee of religious and civic leaders, who made plans for creating the "new center of religious learning...