Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This system reduces the student from an individual to a mere absorber of knowledge. The University of Chicago hopes to develop an individual by its method of advancement by achievement." A brilliant student, unhampered by the indolent, will be able to make extremely rapid progress and he will have the advantage of personal contact with the professors. This type of education will require a faculty that is not only learned but that can teach as well. It is a glorified tutorial system...
Simon Lemon, Irwin Apple. The real difference between the Simon Report and the Irwin Plan, the only factor which suggested that progress toward India's aspirations may be made at the conference, was a matter of tone. Great and broad-visioned lawyer though he is, Sir John Simon infuriated Indians by three sour bits of priggery...
...filled with astonishment and admiration over the great progress and development of Turkey. ... I see everywhere that same courage and imagination which distinguish such great men of today as Colonel Lindbergh and Henry Ford. . . . Take for example the changeover from the Arabic alphabet, the abolition of the fez and construction work in Angora. My visit in Angora ended with an inspection of the President's farm. There I found difficulties similar to those encountered in Arizona...
...there's a sore point: the old rover is homesick. With the best of intentions and a desire to keep pace with progress he packed himself off to Lowell House last year, determined to take part in the new Harvard. But after all, it's pretty hard to teach an old dog new tricks and, frankly, the Vagabond is not happy in his new lodgings, even the men who paint his tower have conspired to make him blue. The youngsters round about him seem happy, but the sound of insular accents and the sight of foreign customs are too much...
...American Bosch's progress an impediment appeared in 1921 when an affiliate of the original and potent Robert Bosch Aktiengesellschaft of Stuttgart was formed in the U. S. as Robert Bosch Magneto Co., Inc. Immediately Robert Bosch Magneto Co. started to do battle with what it considered the illegitimate offspring of the first U. S. Bosch company. Patent litigation over the name continued for many years, was decided in favor of the U. S. company a year ago (TIME, July i, 1929). But Robert Bosch prepared to appeal for the right to use his own name and last winter...