Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, China must sooner, or later respond to the positive influence of a commercial world which offers itself. The question is, will she gain or suffer thereby? The author barely intimates that commercialism and contact with the West will spell her ruin, even as materialistic progress spelled ruin for the other great civilizations of history. This argument deserves weight, but clearly falls to envisage all the facts. The picture painted of a peaceful country sufficient unto itself falls to show in the background the squalor and poverty of the basic population, the bare existence in normal times and the plagues...
There will be contributions from the ranks--never yet fairly counted--of believers in international good-will, and from many obscure men and women who are working in a hundred quiet ways for the betterment of the world. They are eager to show their faith in progress. They have gained fresh confidence in the popular response to every forward stop taken by the Washington conference. They believe that public opinion has advanced far beyond the position taken by official opinion. They hold that anyone who invests in a closer moral and political organization of the world, in the spread...
...nearly a year active agitation in favor of some sort of Federal law for the advancement of education has been in progress; on April 11, 1921. Mr. Towner introduced a bill in the House of Representatives which would create a department of education in the charge of a Secretary. At the meeting held Saturday morning in Lawrence Hall many prominent educators spoke of the need of the States for assistance in educational work. The proposed bill is designed for the purpose of granting moneys to the states for their aid; it is not planned to have it control schools...
Much could be done by the Class of 1922 to overcome these obstacles to educational progress at Harvard. May 1 offer these concrete suggestions...
...however, brought an increase in value of exports over 1919 and this resulted from an increase in prices, whereas the pronounced decline of the value of our exports in 1921 was for the most part the result of falling prices. Last year Europe was financially unstable, and the progress in restoring economic stability was slow, but in England, France and Italy the situation has passed the climax. There will not, however, be any extensive change in the present balance of trade until the first payment on the allied debts are made, and there is no evidence that the present purchasing...