Word: developement
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...college is to be useful it must develop a new machinery. It must teach the undergraduate to achieve work of graduate quality within the limite of his four year course. He must acquire a more intimate familiarity with the instruments of knowledge, and this must be done without sacrificing the ordinary advantages of undergraduate life...
...violent and in cases so disastrous, that it is doubtful wisdom to widen the breach Freshmen should be subject to the examination system as they now are, in order that their fitness to do college work may be tested and in order that a new found freedom may not develop into licensed idleness. Sophomores, also, should be subject to the examination with the exception of those who as Freshmen reached Groups I and II of the Rank List. These intellectual aristocrats, having proved their worth, should, if they have decided upon a field of concentration, be freed from the examination...
...power of an airplane engine falls off in the rarefied atmosphere of great heights; its speed and climbing capacity decrease correspondingly. But if, on the contrary, the power is maintained, the airplane may develop extraordinary speed, because it then has less density of air to impede its progress. Accordingly, many inventors have sought maintenance of power at altitude by using centrifugal air compressors to keep the pressure and density of the air in the engine at a constant value. Such compressors have introduced great complexity and additional weight into the power plant. Paul Painleve, momentarily abandoning his Presidential Chair...
...attempt to develop a renewed interest in Protestant Liturgy, some of the students of the Harvard Theological School are to present a liturgical service of readings and music, without address, in Andover Chapel, Andover Hall, at 5 o'clock on Holy Thursday, April 9. The subject of the service will be "Where is thy God?", and readings have been selected from the various literatures of the world, to be interwoven with liturgical music, which will be furnished by members of the Glee Club. The meeting will be open to the general public...
...regard to the death of Mr. Geer: "In the death of William H. Geer, Harvard College has lost a man who, in the comparatively short time that he had been in Cambridge, had made for himself a very definite place in the Harvard community. Coming here in 1919 to develop with Dr. Roger I, Lee '01, the plan of physical education for Freshmen, he showed himself from the first to be a skillful organizer and an indefatigable worker. Under his direction, a scheme which might have aroused much opposition was carried out without friction and with enthusiastic support from...