Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the preliminary two weeks of getting into working form, the squad made satisfactory progress in all events except the tumbling and rings; here the team did not have the required space at its disposal, due to conflicts with University basketball practice. The use of the flying rings especially was denied the team on account of this...
...average standard of scholarship, and that the present system of management causes considerable neglect of studies on the part of managers and candidates. Consequently, the Faculty and the responsible leaders of the various team can co-operate on a basis of common knowledge. Such cooperation is essential to progress. The same means which brought about this progressive move can be profitably employed in dealing with other college matters...
...champions of freedom. After all, Harvard is the most liberal of all the colleges in this country and it was precisely this spirit, this inquiring for the truth with the ideals and convictions that inevitably followed, which when acted upon, really made for that part of our social progress for which Harvard men are, in part, responsible. Shall we now forsake that attitude of mind which has given this university its precious heritage? It is unthinkable...
...Public Library" has established an exceedingly valuable precedent. The praise of books has been sung in every age, and today, when even the smallest hamlet nearly always possesses some sort of public reading-room, it is easy to believe that this institution is becoming the corner-stone of American progress. Yet the association of the library with the despised text-book still discourages the schoolboy from spending an hour with a favorite volume. And it is here that the power of the court may be used to advantage to compel an acquaintance with standard literature...
...should be possible in each department to eliminate in the introductory courses persons unfitted for work in that field. Yet the large number of men who fail in moderately advanced courses which are essential to further progress in their respective concentration groups shows that this is not being done. It is far better to advise students who are hopelessly in arrears to drop courses than to have them waste their time in bootless effort. If instruction can not be improved or standards lowered; if in order to maintain the reputation of the University recourse must be had to drastic measures...