Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...matter of fact, it's all part of Harvard progress. First Mr. Conant dolled up Massachusetts Hall with push-buttons on every desk; now he's even got buttons on the Dean's vests. Next thing you know, he'll be hiring Norman Bel Geddes to put up a new House. So in these streamlined days there's no place for the gentry who used to wear academic robes to cover up the grease spots. A Harvard President can no longer afford to be a faraway fugitive from the world and Mr. Conant has rightly taken his place...
WILL COME TO NEW ORLEANS AND EAT ONE ISSUE OF THE "AMERICAN PROGRESS" WHICH WILL BE COOKED AND SEASONED FOR HIM BY THAT PEERLESS NEW ORLEANS RESTAURATEUR, MONSIEUR ROY ALCIATORE OF ANTOINE'S. I ASSURE TIME THAT THE GREAT ALCIATORE CAN EVEN MAKE A SOUFFLÉ OUT OF AN EIGHT-PAGE NEWSPAPER...
...American Progress...
...files of the CRIMSON reveal no editor who had to resort to the purchase of a trusteeship to make progress at Vassar, nor is there indication of a man with a special grudge against German geese...
...self-education, we still cling too closely to the idea that plans of study demand the passing of a certain number of courses. We often overlook the fact that certain students are able to obtain all they need from particular courses in a very short time and that they progress at different raies of speed in their college work. We have not yet explored the possibilities of the examining process as a means of individualizing the work of our more able students...