Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Picasso's Picassos, no one knows exactly how many there are, and cataloguing them may take years. The estimates of the number of his works squirreled away in his villas range from 12,000 to 25,000. That ought to be enough to enrich museums in both Spain and France-and the rest of the world as well...
...beings--unable to appreciate much of what goes on around them, incapable of enjoying their leisure hours, and bereft of resources for the period late in life when they no longer have their careers to sustain them. The point of encouraging serious intellectual pursuits, however, is not simply to enrich the hours away from work, important as that may be. Without a breadth of interests, one may lack the learning and imagination to make the wise and creative judgments that no amount of professional competence can guarantee. In Harold Taylor's words: "Liberal education in its true sense...
...various roles and opportunities available for spending a useful, productive life. To some degree, the needed personal awareness may be furthered through courses and readings in the humanities that add to a student's store of vicarious experience. Greater involvement of the professional schools in the undergraduate curriculum may enrich this experience in ways that do not merely provide preprofessional training. Even greater opportunities lie outside the curriculum--by creating a student body of diverse backgrounds, by bringing older persons to the campus from many different walks of life, by providing capable counseling and career services and even by encouraging...
...special attempt should be made to improve the freshman year. Efforts to enrich and improve the curriculum arise most naturally from the interests of professors and the concerns expressed by students. Both these forces tend to be weakest in the freshman year. Students do not become actively interested in the curriculum until they are sopomores or juniors. Faculty members naturally take greater interest in work of a more advanced nature, a process easily observed through the decline of Faculty involvement in freshman courses and the increasing reliance in these courses on the use of sections taught by graduate students. These...
When REAP was started 37 years ago, the idea was that the Government would subsidize farmers to undertake such conservation practices as terracing their land, reseeding grassland and spreading lime on their fields to enrich them. The plan made sense in 1936: better conservation was urgently required to prevent the spread of dust bowls, and farm income in those Depression days needed bolstering by any means available...