Word: developing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...putting a student in a category, an assigned grade encourages him to avoid his most important task--that of self-evaluation. He tends to accept the verdict of the system: if successful, he may not ask how to develop further; unsuccessful, he may feel discouraged. ("I was just a 'B' student. Of course I didn't know any Faculty members. Who would want to talk with me?" asked a typlical student. When grades are coupled with a system of impersonal lectures and final examinations, they students from entering unknown of study. It becomes advantageous to "play from strength"--to take...
...defender of the lecture system, feels that another weakness of the lecture system is that it is the "star system" at the moment and that each lecturer acts too much on his own. He believes that if lectures met together periodically to exchange views they might help one another develop better...
Further explaining his notion of "moral education," Pusey said that "it is [Harvard's] hope that there will develop here generation after generation--now as in the past--of thoughtful men who through their beliefs and actions will go on to renew and strengthen true quality in the world's life...
...Course. He was born in Nevada in a covered wagon, grew up in the Arizona Territory. His father was a rancher, but Henry himself had dreams of greater glory. In his blue-backed speller, when he was ten, he wrote: "Henry Fountain Ashurst, U.S. Senator from Arizona." To develop his voice, the young cowboy rode into the hills to address the landscape. He exhorted the boulders to rise against the iron heel of oppression. He demanded of the mountains that they nominate Grant for a third term. While other cowpunchers twanged The Old Chisholm Trail, Ashurst (who knew countless stanzas...
...Christian Democrats only by dropping the talk of class consciousness, and by plugging policies that were anathema to the Socialists only a few years ago. Proclaimed West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt in his Cologne speech: "We say that the Federal Republic must cultivate and develop the relationship of trust with the United States." From SPD Economic Pundit Heinrich Deist there was no kind word for nationalization of industry; instead, he urged free competition, mildly suggested that capitalism be improved by better anti-cartel legislation and restriction of lobbyists...