Word: progress
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CRIMSON has made arrangements whereby telegraphic reports of the West Point game will be announced in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow afternoon. These bulletins will come at short intervals, and will announce the progress of the game play by play. The first will arrive shortly after the game starts, at 2.45 o'clock. Only members of the Union will be admitted, and everyone will be required to show his membership card before entering...
...figures can show the material progress of the University enrollment statistics published today reflect a satisfactory condition of growth in nearly every department. In the College the entering class justifies the expectations as to numbers to which the entrance examinations gave rise, and when Freshman classes are large the welfare of other undergraduate and graduate departments is assured for future years. It is a regrettable fact that through many early graduations and some failures by the way the Senior class is but little more than half as large as the Freshman class. To the impartial mind it would seem that...
...civilized world has come to believe in the freedom of inquiry in all fields, as the best means of progress in knowledge, in manners and in righteous living. Now the field of inquiry from which within the last 60 years mankind has received the largest visible, tangible, concrete, demonstrable benefits is in the field of medical research applied in the medical and surgical art and in sanitary science. If freedom of inquiry be in general expedient and righteous, should not inquiry be free in this most productive of all fields? To secure and maintain this freedom against the assaults...
...changes wrought in the college have weakened the old solidarity and unity of aim, they have let in light and air. They have given us a freedom of movement needed for further progress. May we not say of the extreme elective system what Edmond Sherer said of democracy; that it is but one stage in an irresistible march toward an unknown goal? Progress means change, and every time of growth is a transitional era; but in a peculiar degree the present state of the American college bears the marks of a period of transition. This is seen in the comparatively...
...been our custom to confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine, honoris causa; but an exception is fitting in the case of one who in the opinion of professors of medicine, has accomplished more for the progress of medical education in this country than any other living...