Word: developing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aviation is still in the process of development, and it is very hard to predict its future. Take for example the case of the helicopter. For years they have been endeavoring to perfect a ship which will land perpendicularly, but as yet they have been unsuccessful. While the helicopter makes a nice, little sport machine, I doubt if it will ever be developed as a practical means of eliminating the necessity of a large landing field. Still, things which we thought impossible 20 years ago have now become commonplace, and we really cannot tell what may eventually develop...
...avowed leading aims of the new Houses has been to establish a social and intellectual concord between student and instructor, in short, to develop further President Lowell's conception of the University as a group of experienced and un-experienced students working together for the same end. It has been proposed to aid this aim by providing a common eating place to bring the men together. But contact between them would be decidedly hindered if one or the other had first to hurdle over the impediment of a "high table". The social touch in bringing tutor and student to dine...
...investment banking that are carried on by college men. Some work in the cages, statistical department and buying department often requires college men. Most frequently, however, men who start in this field are expected to start in sales work and then progress into the other fields as they develop and their abilities become more evident...
...should develop leaders, we should pay less attention to marks, standing and degrees and more to character. We should pay attention to every form of college life. We give our men a splendid education but we are sadly lacking in culture...
...fall track. Whether its work is light or heavy, it is at best only a conditioning process. But its chief justification is the chance it affords the dub to play with the University squad under University coaches. The numbers of men who report for spring practice, and who develop often into players of ability bear testimony to the value of the informal conduct of a sport apart from the hurry and hysteria of its regular season...