Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long been accustomed to a paternalistic attitude on the part of the institutions that they might fail to realize the benefits accruing from the suggested period of research at their own will. In English universities, where the plan is now in use, it has been the product of gradual evolution, and the students there have been brought to a gradual understanding of the importance of properly utilizing their pre-examination respite. To suddenly thrust such a change on the college students of this country might raise serious difficulties for the plan, and possibly result in its failure. At any rate...
...institution which has had a reputation for progressiveness since President Eliot assumed office in the late sixties. This progressive spirit has been expressed in the establishment of extensive graduate schools, such as the business school, established early in the history of education for commerce's and administration, in the gradual granting of more and more freedom to the undergraduate, which has resulted in the "Dean's List" permitting unlimited cutting of classes to the scholastically successful, and in the study of educational methods made ten or twelve years ago when the Graduates School of Education inquired into the features...
...harangue had no place with the earliest formulators of socialistic principle. Socialists of the stamp of Russean and Babeux, for instance, saw in their rather visionary conceptions of a commonalty of mankind the most complete amelioration of the social evils that beset France in the 18th century. With the gradual disruption and decay of the French monarchy and the Church in France there had come a surprising shake-up of society on an economic basis. Capital and capitalists became powerful factors in the realm, with a corresponding depression of the lower classes. Socialism as conceived by these early philosophiers...
...since their inception. It is in the remedies suggested that difference of opinion will creep in. Mr. Peterkin proposes two, in one of which the tutorial system is to be regarded, as training school for professors, with the better tutors allowed to combine the two kinds of work, with gradual promotion to professorial ranks no their goal...
...gradual, persistent tendency of French politics toward the left was shown again last week, when, for the first time, a Socialist was elected to the third highest* political post in the Republic: the Presidency of the Chamber...