Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent additions in policy and personel to the Congressional Library brings out a new side to what is generally considered the place of Washington in national affairs. Books as Mr. A. DeW. Howe states in an interview elsewhere on these pages, "are the measuring sticks of progress." The printed word, and often the printed word alone, redeems civilizations from an unknown past. It seems especially significant that this standard of values should emerge from the nation's capitol where progress is generally judged by criteria vaguely concerned with the tariff and a Mexican ideal of procrastination. Yet, it is quite...
...School of the Public and International Affairs has great possibilities. Its usefulness will depend largely upon the sympathy of the faculty and the interest of the students enrolled in it. The curriculum will doubtless be extremely difficult, and the results should be proportionately worth while. We shall watch the progress of the School with sympathetic interest. --Daily Princetonian...
...fascinating account of the progress of education at Harvard during the administrations of President Eliot and President Lowell...
...used by Dr. Sarton fifteen years ago. It is the movement to humanize science by studying it from the historical point of view as an essential part of human culture. Dr. Sarton's lectures will probably deal more particularly with the history of science and the fact that human progress is to be told in terms of increase of knowledge...
...Work in Progress has been appearing serially in transition for the last two years. Author Joyce, no smoother of the path for his public, gave the transition editors only the first and third sections, one instalment of the second, supplied no key to the whole. The prevailing explanation: to out-smart literary pirates...