Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...auspices of the Shaler Memorial Fund. A party consisting of Professor Raymond, Dr. L. W. Collet, Dr. Parejas, Mr. Augustin Lombard, and Mr. Hutchins spent the next few weeks in the Athabaska Valley and the vicinity of Mount Robson, extending the investigations which had been begun during the progress of the summer school. The information obtained will serve as the basis for a geological report on the area which will eventually appear as a Shaler Memorial Research publication...
...special commission of the conference appointed to deal with these problems and chairmanned by Lou -Loucheur ("The Richest Man in France"), notable progress was made last week when the "orientals" accepted in principle the following plan: Let Austria renounce her claims against the Little Entente on account of their seizures of Austrian lands and property; and let the Little Entente renounce their claims against Austria for reparations. Though this simple compromise gained much favor, it was by no means certain to be adopted, and the complex related issues touching Hungary and Rumania reared ugly heads...
...recent summary of the progress in traffic control made by the San Francisco Traffic Survey Committee includes reference to a two million dollar reduction in accident and damage claims arising from the more orderly flow of traffic under the new San Francisco Traffic Code...
Prominent among the courses listed for the second half year at the Business School, the course of Business Conditions marks another milestone in the steady progress of the graduate school since its inception in 1927. Its general aim, an interpretation by the student of the tendencies affecting general business conditions, is an academic expansion of the principles recently employed by the faculty in its survey of the leading basic industries engaged in the manufacture and distribution of building materials...
...annual appearance of the President's Report fulfills, in practice, two important functions. It gives Harvard men a chance to trace the progress of the University during the year just past, and it raises questions, often controversial in nature, as to the further development of University policies. This year's report will satisfy those who like to look back upon work well accomplished and will provoke to further activity that large group of men who are always thinking and striving towards the high goal which Harvard has set herself in the field of American education. Several proposals in the report...