Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...same person. Why does Mr. Taub feel that he must bring up the "old chestnut" that has long been disproved of Williams being a "country club"? If it is a sin for Williams to have a "lush campus" or for any other college, then why are colleges trying to develop their campuses into spots of beauty? How come Williams has such a high academic standing, which Harvard Graduate Schools will vouch for? It certainly is not because we are living up to that reputation of being a "country club." House Party Weekend is a time for the students to relax...
...Free men and free nations everywhere," said Dean Acheson at his departure, "will face increasingly crucial tests in the years immediately ahead. What we seek at London is to accelerate the mobilization of ... vast untapped moral and material resources in the free world. We must develop those reserves to the best of our ability. We should be doing so even if international Communism did not exist. As things are, we must do so with utmost vigor...
...will have to develop enough intelligence as Catholics to recognize that the United States is a great Protestant country, not only in formal church membership but in some of the basic traditions of more than one hundred millions of its people. A clerical-religious approach to the question of public education which may be suitable to a fine little green and very Catholic country of three million people, to which many of our greatest clerics are tied by kinship, is not always appropriate in the United States...
...will have to develop enough intelligence as Protestants to recognize that the United States is a great Catholic country, the greatest Roman Catholic country in the world, both in terms of numbers of the church's communicants and in the political and economic power it wields. A blindness to the great liberal resources of Catholicism and a rigid and uncompromising adherence to doctrinaire notions of the 'separation' of church and state, which may have been suitable to American conditions in the days of Horace Mann, are not always appropriate to the United States...
...similar to those adopted six years later by the Harvard Committee on the Objectives of General Education in a Free Society. Important aims of a liberal college, according to the Council survey, were those of freeing the mind from ignorance and prejudice and giving the student an "opportunity to develop considered standards of value." To do this the College must give the student some idea of our "common tradition of human experience" and also attempt to provide him with the "intellectual tools with which he can confront new problems successfully...