Word: progressivity
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...subject for discussion in Political Economy 2 at the lecture Monday, February 11, will be chapters I and II of George's "Progress and Poverty," Book I. Members of the course will read these chapters...
...report of the librarian of Harvard College, published simultaneously with the president's report, contains a good deal of interesting matter and shows that marked improvement and progress have been made in all directions...
...action of the overseers of Harvard University at their meeting on Wednesday will strike a great number of the recent graduates as an unfortunate retrograde movement. During the twenty years, more or less, in which President Eliot has occupied his position, there has been steady progress in the direction of placing greater reliance on the individual student and less upon a vexatious code of rules and penalties...
...week, unless the choice has been specially allowed by the dean. That in order to make it more difficult for students to prepare by a brief period of cramming to meet the tests applied, the faculty require all the instructors to provide tests of the progress of their students with sufficient frequency to enable them to enforce effectively section 7 of the regulations. That admonition be administered by the dean or by his sole authority, and that the powers of that office be so enlarged, at whatever increased expense it may be necessary to incur, that the records of attendance...
...locality that will serve to foster the growth of refined, but simple and inexpensive tastes; third, to favor the formation, in connection with the university, of a community instructively representative of attractive and wholesome conditions of social and domestic life. The design of the building now in progress is a novel one. There is a central quadrangle, its four sides formed by a continuous arcade of stone, 18 feet high, 20 deep and 1700 long. Opening from the arcade are to be a series of structures for class rooms, lecture rooms, draughting rooms and rooms for scientific investigation and instruction...