Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this is the initial contest of the season for both teams, it is impossible to predict the result of the game. The University team has been greatly handicapped by rainy weather, but has made very rapid progress in six days of out door practice...
Langdon Warner '03 will lecture at 8.15 Friday evening, in Jordan Hall, on the subject: "The Czecho-Slovak Progress Across Siberia." He was sent by the government to investigate conditions in Siberia at first-hand, and for eight months, beginning in the fall of 1917, he studied conditions along the Trans-Siberian Railway from Vladivostock to Simau in European Russia; meeting in this way, Bolsheviki, representatives of the Siberian Government, and officers of the Czecho-Slovak Army...
While the university's place is in the van of progress, her work is advisory not directory. She can maintain her high place only by the careful notice of change and appreciation of conditions. If she is sluggish, men will go elsewhere for their ideals; if she caters too readily to the impatient haste of the day, men will no longer be inspired by her. The importance of keeping their curriculum in complete accord with the temper of the age merits this arduous task before the universities...
...believe that a new Heaven and a new earth are about to be ushered in, or that the old hell and the old world are to remain, we must see that the spirit of revolution is loose. This spirit will either lead us to make some definite steps in progress, or cause us to run down a steep place into the sea. It is not to be assumed that every change is necessarily for the better. Nations have gone wrong almost as frequently as they have gone right in the past, and will probably continue to make mistakes...
...university is made. Give them a chance to be human, and the undergraduate may find professors worthy of his friendship. Then when we have more money, we might equip our poverty stricken chairs with laboratories, theatres, libraries and all the other what-nois. Then, they tell us, their present progress would seem like marking time. Ask our men which they would rather have: endowments or high salaries. Get rid of the money-grubbers. Although we would then, by no means, be free from all the quacks that infest Cambridge, still in the company of those who would remain are found...