Word: developing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protect its own, if it is to keep its own house and doorstep clean, (if for no other reasons), the University must take the lead in developing not only the area surrounding it but also other parts of Cambridge. In civic affairs Harvard might take a good example from M.I.T. The new Technology Square development, covering about eight acres, represents a joint effort by MIT, an investment company (Cabot, Cabot, and Forbes) and Lever Brothers to develop an area primarily for industrial purposes. MIT went into the project as an investor, not as an academic institution...
...criticized Sarah Lawrence girls for living in an ivory tower in many ways." Although the educational system offers them the opportunity to develop their individual talents, she explained, "they can excuse not doing their reading if they can come up with a whopping good personal problem...
Lawrence's father, a railroad cook, suddenly disappeared one day when his son was only seven, but his mother was able both to support the boy and let him develop his budding talent. "Most kids,'' says Lawrence of his boyhood, "draw and paint and write poetry - I simply never stopped." In Harlem he spent hours making actors' masks and tiny stage sets, and he began working with the Negro artist Charles Alston. Like many of his generation, he was able to stick to his painting by getting on the Federal Art Project during the Depression...
...putting a student in a category, an assigned grade encourage him to avoid his most important task--that of self-evaluation. tends to accept the verdict of system: If successful, he may ask how to develop further; cessful, he may feel discouraged was just a 'B' student. Of course didn't know any Faculty member who would want to talk with asked a typical student.) When grades are coupled with a system of impersonal lectures and examinations, they discourage students from entering unknown are of study. It becomes advantages to "play from strength"--to courses where one feets rather than...
...Navy is so pleased with the success of this unusual venture that it has contracted for "What is Mathematics?" to be taught by a B.U. professor. Reginald H. Phelps '30, Director of University Extension, said he hoped to develop this "underwater education" into a large-scale program in the future...