Word: developement
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...amount of individual instruction, all planned for the purpose of training students in exact and independent methods so that they may in turn carry on the traditions of sound learning and enlarge the world's knowledge of nature and of man. Its ideal, it has been said, is "to develop Harvard as one of the great centres of the world's scholarship, conserving the learning of the past and constantly widening the bounds of knowledge...
...believe that boxing is a natural sport for Americans. We borrowed it, of course, from the old world, but I think the youths of this country take to it so naturaly that they develop faster than elsewhere. I have found some excellent material since I started instructing at the University and in fact many of the boys in the classes have learned so rapidly that, in refereeing professional bouts, I have found many of the preliminary boxers do not know nearly so much about how to box as the boys in the classes. I do not attribute this to anything...
...regretted that "Vogues and Vanities" should cease playing when its musical score has not yet been offered to the public. Some of the tunes were decidedly worth-while and seemed destined to develop into highly acclaimed dance pieces...
...CRIMSON competition offers the chance not only to come in contact with others who have been through the same mill as the present crop of candidates, and made good, but also to develop an ability to meet and deal with business men without embarrassment and with that poise which so many students fresh from preparatory schools lack. Previous experience is not at all necessary. The man is bound to succeed who gets out and is in earnest, makes an analytical study of the problems before him, profits by his errors and comes back stronger as a result. If he goes...
...progress of the game as a national indoor pastime. There is no reason why basketball should not be as popular with the youth of our nation in the fall and winter months as baseball is in the summer. There is no question about its attractiveness and its tendency to develop both the physical and moral sides of the young...