Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...receiving a C at Midyear's must get an A or an E in the April examination in order to change his standing in the Dean's Office. This situation destroys, in a large measure, the value of the April records as an index of a student's progress, and relegates the examinations to a mere breaking up of the term's work and a routine check on reading...
...Overseers of Harvard College will hold their annual two day meeting on Monday and Tuesday, May 12 and 13, with the major part of the two meetings to be spent on the routine business of the Board, and the remainder to be devoted to an observation of the progress of the House Plan...
Unquestionably this is the case. The academic side of a university does not receive the publicity that other phases do. Occasionally this is caused by the unwillingness of a specific department to broadcast its findings, believing that the interested parties will soon learn of its progress. But almost without, exception the lack of publicity can be attributed to another reason--there is no glamour for the public in the reading of scientific achievements. Sports and social events have always made a greater general appeal. To the majority of readers these news items are more personal, whereas the advances that scholars...
...three aims of these men were to get data of the first contact, that is, the first instant that the shadow appears, and of the last contact, as well as to take photographs of the eclipse during its various stages. In watching the progress of the eclipse, a lens system was used to project the image of the sun on a white sheet. By watching this large reflected image of the sun, the observers were not troubled by the blinding light, and could accurately time the changes taking place...
...group of noble individuals whose usefulness, a few short years ago, seemed gone forever. These are 'bouncers' of that simple and primitive anti-alcoholic ardor that cleared the saloon of 'bums' when those gentlemen by raucousness or unseemly act impeded normal intellectual discussion or progress of any worthy cause...