Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...recent decision to raise boxing to the level of a formal sport at Harvard and the completion of the University's first adequate natatorium, offer convincing evidence of the progress of the policy of all athletics for all: With the completion of the indoor athletic plant and the Dillon Field House, Harvard's athletic equipment will be complete...
...attack at secondary schools in particular, Mr. Taft declared that a great many students are admitted to the Universities of the West with certificates from schools "that ought to be closed by law." Parental interference, school boards, and money stringencies all play their part to block the path of progress. The whims of individual educators are unavailing without a solid foundation of education in the old style; Latin, Greek, and Mathematics...
President Hoover last week had need of all his good cheer to meet discouraging reports from London on the progress of the Naval Conference (see p. 21). While he was not ready to despair of some form of success from the parley, he was disappointed at the manner in which its negotiations seemed to be going around & around & around in a profitless circle. Chief Delegate Stimson continued to send him optimistic reports on the possibility of progress, but Stimson optimism did not seem to jibe with the pessimistic cablings of expert newsmen. Strong though the temptation...
...With a heavy but firm heart, and after mature and conscientious examination, I have signed the Young Plan laws. . . . Economic and political progress lies along the thorny path of Germany's liberation. I could not refuse to sign in view of my sense of responsibility to Germany and her future, because the consequences of such a step would be incalculable for German industry and German finance...
...fully aware that acceptance of the Young Plan will not free us from future worries, but I nevertheless confidently believe that the course we are now pursuing, which grants the occupied territory hope of liberation and affords us all hopes of future progress, will prove the right path...