Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a wide-spread belief that wages should be fixed on a cost of living basis. This idea is pernicious and intolerable. It means putting progress in chains and liberty in fetters. It means fixing a standard of living and a standard of life and liberty which must remain fixed. America's workers cannot accept that proposition. They demand a progressively advancing standard of life. They have an abiding faith in a better future for all mankind. They discard and denounce a system of fixing wages on the sole basis of family budgets and bread bills. Workers are entitled...
...present day of utility and swift progress, it is genuinely necessary to keep up with the times. The daily papers, however, serve more to confuse than to clarify our knowledge; and digests are a necessary means of co-ordinating information. But from journals alone we cannot keep in touch with the variations of feelings, the shadings of human nature, and the intellectual influence which come only from reading high class literature. In the library at the Union there is a table devoted to recent literary publications, and an evening now and again spent at this table, even at the loss...
...there to be a run on bank Presidents as other universities perceive the necessity of competing with Harvard in business instruction? The addition of "dollar-a-year men" eminent in finance to the faculties of American colleges will exemplify a curiously modern progress away from old ideals of a college education. New York World
Without a diminution of class-room work, the tutorial system is bound to be arrested of its progress...
...with modern conditions. Conservatives and liberals alike should unite to effect the reform which is obviously so necessary. When reform becomes the instrument of political preservation, even the most conservative must see the advantage of altering old traditions, lest the traditions themselves, no longer useful in the race of progress, fall by the way and perish...