Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement that twelve educators from Brazil are to visit Harvard and other educational institutions in the vicinity of Boston is one more evidence of progress on the way of international understanding. The steps toward world-peace that are aided by such organizations as the Institute of International Education are strides in the right direction...
...both books while others assigned only one. Those assigning both gave as their reason that they were required to do so by the department. Rumor of this reaching students in sections where only one book had been read excited some pre-examination consternation. Moreover, in at least one section, progress had been so slow in the regular text that during the last weeks of the term assignments were raised from three chapters a week to three and four chapters a meeting. Under these circumstances, through no fault of the student, proper review for the examination was difficult. Such conditions were...
...lowering clouds of scurrilous criticism which have hung over Bawdy Boston for so long, there gleams at last a ray of hope that she may again cleanse her fair name and wipe the muck from her escutcheon. Under the guidance of her sturdy constabulary a reform is now in progress so startling and courageous in its nature that only the merest guess can be ventured as to the far reaching consequences which may eventually be involved...
...found in Oxford and Cambridge, we have felt that much good might be derived from such an adaptation as might seem applicable to the peculiar conditions in American colleges. We admitted that the Quad Plan, at the present time, stood in our eyes rather as a symbol of social progress than as a ready working system which could be applied tomorrow and could be trusted to uproot all the social ills that afflict this university, or any other. We did not attempt to deceive ourselves; we were theorists. But at the same time we were convinced that these theories were...
Englishmen, in the light of American progress, are considered notoriously backward. Various exaggerated accounts are wafted across the Atlantic concerning the tea hour in business offices and regulation of theatre-program jokes. With this opinion firmly in mind, the average American notes with great amusement the news from London that the Times is to make a radical departure in the direction of human interest and, owing to the increasing popularity of the cross-word puzzle, will include one such feature daily in its pages, in addition to the usual chess problem. With--a hearty laugh the business man turns...