Word: developement
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...DICKINSON is the author of many books, most of which deal with politics and war. His publisher calls him a "great historian": it would perhaps be more correct to term him a great publicist, since the purpose of his writing is not merely to state facts, but also to develop these facts as illustrations of a particular theory. To those who have read his little volume entitled "A Modern Symposium," no introduction will be necessary. The same charm of style, the same aptness and simplicity of expression are here applied to historical data...
...This committee," declares Dean Edsall "will a so gather information especially useful to the advisors, will develop further methods of training them, will arrange for conferences of the whole group of the advisors from time to time for discussion of their problems and methods, and will as seems desirable, make recommendations, regarding changes in the personnel in order to reach ultimately the group best suited to this especial work...
...result has been the Introduction of courses paralleling everywhere in the curriculum the structural elements in the undergraduate leisure. Even the hobbledehoy dramatic pretensions of fraternity night have been capitalized to develop dramatic production by Faculty teachers who seek to extend their away over histrionic impulse of the undergraduate. In this new recognition of the values evolving from student life itself, there is coming about an understanding and cooperation between professors and students; cut of this cooperation and out of this increase of contact is coming the modern student movement...
...into a mad frenzy that they may accomplish the phenomenal, but rather it sees in the rally a voicing of support and approval both necessary and encouraging to a Harvard crew in a difficult situation, a crew which besides having to face this situation must in three weeks' time develop into the most efficient combination of which it is capable...
...find ourselves driven to admit that knowledge is growing more rapidly than educators an fetter it, may it not be necessary for us to strive to develop educational methods in the undergraduate's years that will deal more directly with the mental processes of the student than do many of our present methods of teaching, and examination that lay so much emphasis on subject matter? May it not be that the only way in which the modern man can hope to keep pace with the modern world is to increase the tempo of his, mind as the tempo...