Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...present day of utility and swift progress, it is genuinely necessary to keep up with the times. The daily papers, however, serve more to confuse than to clarify our knowledge; and digests are a necessary means of co-ordinating information. But from journals alone we cannot keep in touch with the variations of feelings, the shadings of human nature, and the intellectual influence which come only from reading high class literature. In the library at the Union there is a table devoted to recent literary publications, and an evening now and again spent at this table, even at the loss...
...there to be a run on bank Presidents as other universities perceive the necessity of competing with Harvard in business instruction? The addition of "dollar-a-year men" eminent in finance to the faculties of American colleges will exemplify a curiously modern progress away from old ideals of a college education. New York World
Without a diminution of class-room work, the tutorial system is bound to be arrested of its progress...
...legislative reform which seems plausible consists in the establishment of a committee whose sole duty would be the drafting of bills in such form that time may not be lost on the floor of the House in quibbling over details of phraseology and legality. Coordination of effort and legislative progress would be the result of these changes...
...with modern conditions. Conservatives and liberals alike should unite to effect the reform which is obviously so necessary. When reform becomes the instrument of political preservation, even the most conservative must see the advantage of altering old traditions, lest the traditions themselves, no longer useful in the race of progress, fall by the way and perish...