Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Hanford has the right idea in emphasizing the statistics on percentages of honors graduates and failures. Nothing could be more significant than the progress since 1923 from 17.3% graduating with honors in a special field to last year's 31.9% and from 8.5% failures in 1924 to 5.8% last year. This criterion of progress is simple and accurate. The figures mean simply that, owing to changes in the methods of education, more students have been stimulated to do good work, and fewer students have become so maladjusted, uninterested, or lazy that they have not even lived...
...through four wasted years. Give them an education they deserve and need; an extra course per year, hour examinations, quizzes, and attendance. This will quickly stimulate the gifted to return into the fold, and will at least give a real, rounded education for the rest. Under this plan, the progress of the past few years, more and more graduates with honors, fewer and fewer failures, would continue...
...many years, this is inevitable. But George Lyman Kittredge is choosing merely rest, never inactivity. To him all Harvard men wish a continuance of the success he has always known and the hope that he may extend his already full seventy-five years into a true century of progress...
...ninety per cent of the undergraduates who joined the Center have used its facilities constantly is ample proof that the plant is giving satisfactory service and moving rapidly toward the consummation of the purpose to which it was established. The authorities have made every reasonable effort to further the progress of the enterprise, including the maintenance of a graduate committee, and, more recently, the attachment of the membership charge to the term bill. With such cooperation on every side, the commuting students who campaigned so pugnaciously and vociferously last spring have no further requests to be answered. The success...
...dowmetal spectrographs will be used to follow the course of the changing spectrum of the sun throughout the progress of the eclipse. They will record the appearance of the spectrum on a moving plate...